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I moved from KH310’s to One18’s. I’ve been a frequent poster in this thread about the switch, but to summarise my thoughts:

KH310:
- sound bigger, more impressive to clients
- much more microdetail, quite a zoomed in presentation
- more sub low end with a tighter low end presentation
- more forward high mids
- better at showing saturation - was like i could hear individual grains of distortion
- boring and uninspiring. devoid of character (someone here described them very accurately as a studio monitor for universities)


One18:
- better imaging and phantom centre
- better dynamics, both macro and micro
- noticeably better phase coherence
- potentially faster overall
- superior depth, easier to hear reverb and delay trails
- high frequencies easier to differentiate from one another
- more of a zoomed out presentation
- much more musical and inspiring

I would implore you to hear them both in the same space as they’re quite different presentations. KH310 is more typical studio monitor voicing.