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Description

The Mackie HR824 Studio Monitor is an active, biamplified speaker that delivers a wide, deep, and incredibly detailed sound field. You can actually hear distinct tonal qualities of an instrument's low end. High frequencies and midrange are clean and articulate. A low-frequency acoustic space control makes it easy to tailor the sound to your space. Internally powered by 2 smaller versions of Mackie's FR M•1200 power amp, delivering 150W for the lows, 100W for the highs. Features a 1" alloy dome high-frequency transducer, an 8-3/4" low-frequency transducer, 1/4" and XLR inputs, overload/clip LED, and logarithmic wave guide. 34 lbs.
FEATURES

Biamplified active studio monitor
Flat, detailed, and transparent sound
Non-resonant, H-braced 3/4" MDF cabinet
Radius-edge, 1" MDF front panel
Internal foam damping
1" alloy dome HF tweeter with ferrofluid-cooled voice coil
8-3/4" LF driver with mineral-filled propylene cone
Oversized magnet structure
6" x 12" passive aluminum/phenolic honeycomb radiator
Mackie FR-series power circuitry
150W to lows, 100W to highs
Modified Linkwitz-Riley crossover
1/4" and XLR ins
Overload/clip LED
Acoustic-space optimization EQ
Logarithmic wave guide
10"W x 15-3/4"H x 12-1/4"D

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Roll call, what monitors are you using..?

A decades-old pair of Mackie HR824s. Not the very first iteration, though I had some of those as well, but a slightly later revision with balanced XLR inputs that still falls under the “mk1” designation.

Steven Slate VSX Headphone: Mix in Pro Studios, Mastering Rooms, Cars, Clubs, Boomboxes, & More

...them without the big bad eq that most rooms are. I did it once with a pair of oversized Mackie HR824's I think they were.. sounded so different to my 'treated' room. Sobering stuff like a cold wet flannel up your whatsit in the morning.

The Adam A7X: What is it good for?

...that way for a good while. I've been looking at things like the Adam a7x's or a7v's, Kali LP-6's, Mackie hr824's, and Yamaha NS-10's, or also HS7's. I just want something that does a better job revealing the mid range in a way that helps my mixes translate. Like, with my current speakers, I...

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I have bought my Mackies HR-824 in 1998. They were having great reviews and after comparing them to all the same priced speakers from KRK, Dynaudio, Genelec I definetly thought they were a good bang for the buck.

They came in two well packaged boxes and they are quite heavy for their size. 32.5...

by guitarz

there's something to be said for ubiquity and I feel the HR824's are the love/hate monitors of their era as the NS10's were a generation prior. these are by no means the definitive monitors but the ubiquity of installations has provided a somewhat standard of reference, even if that reference is...

by rack gear

I own the second revision mk2, so I cannot comment on the first one.
These monitors are constantly bashed over here at gearslutz and to be honest I understand that particularly.
These monitors have a lot of bass and go pretty deep and this is in my opinion one of the main reasons that these...

by BumBataa

Ah, the Mackie HR824, was not the first or last time I was sucked into purchasing expensive gear because of advertising... I thought, especially since I was really inexperienced, that THX meant that I was going to have incredible dynamics and sound. First, I was quite impressed with how loud and...

by skindogdms

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