Mackie MR524 5 inch Powered Studio Monitor

Great speaker for esports. The build quality is superb, very sleek.

I use my PC mostly for sequencing/arranging on keyboards, sometimes editing digital audio, sometimes I just want to listen to awesome music that I can just turn up and just about bathe in. I used 2 Alesis M1Active 520 Powered Monitors and absolutely LOVED THEM, until after 10 years of making incredible sound, I'd turn them on, and over the past year they would start making random white noise - it kinda sounded like thunder the way it would creep in. I needed something comparable, and Alesis has discontinued them since, and aren't selling anything similar in terms of size, output and price range.I felt like I was taking a risk with these Mackie MR524's. There very few reviews on line (newly released product?), but the price was right ($119 ea at the time), and the specs seemed just a tad nicer than the Alesis units. I have to say I am a little more satisfied with these than the Alesis monitors. The frequency response is very even, there's no noticeable resonance, their volume is pretty strong, and they have some controls to adjust some of the tweeter/woofer gains. The LED isn't terribly flashy, which is a good thing. It's a single green light on the front (which maybe turns red when it clips? I haven't experieced that yet). They sound pretty great: The highs are crisp, the lows are full-sounding, but everything is very well balanced. If you are one who likes loud thumping bass in your music, look elsewhere, these are not designed for that, but as a reference monitor, they are top-notch. There is also no residual noise like the Alesis units had. That may be because those units were old, but it's almost weired, you can't even tell they are on.My one complaint is, and you should take note of this if it's an issue for you, the power switch is located on the back in a non-intuitive location. Alesis put theirs conveniently on the top surface of the unit, but these have a switch in the back. It's not worth taking a star off for that, but I didn't realize this when I bought them, just a pain to reach behind them to power them on or off.These Mackie MR524s are great, and I am very happy with this purchase.

Hello I have a couple things to say,I've owned the MACKIE MR824 's ( 8 inch ), for a while now, I am not a pro audio guy, Just average guy who takes interest in audio/audio equipment kinds of things,So what I wanted to say is,These speakers sound really great / clear / accurate / Can be turned up without issue (example some tweeter in other speakers kind of hurts my ears turned up Maybe titanium not sure..) Silk/soft dome tweeters are nice.The main thing is, -I feel, they sound best 2 ways1. (FIRST WAY)- If you're playing at low volume you CAN use them in full range(no crossover etc) and they will sound great, as long as your room is quiet(er) / or silent like no Air Conditioner running in the same room etc,2. (Second way)-(the way I primarily / usually use) use a subwoofer I use a crossover of 70Hz, I read/learned that cutting out the lows, takes the load off your speakers or allows them to play louder with less effort. So not only you get deep bass from subwooofer type Bass, but you can play louder.-----TL:DR :low volume : full range (no crossover) GOOD / Bass still there, (low listening levels)high volume : Set crossover - better overall output, + better sub bass if you have a sub. I use 70Hz crossover.hope this helps.Update: 2022 /(end of) January - SPEAKER CRACKLING SOUND from the speaker box face plate(?) itself :- I've noticed something weird about the speakers, pretty sure when my *edit: ROOM gets super cold or goes hot - cold - hot - cold for reasons, I think face of the speaker makes creaks and cracking sound like from the heat having an effect. it does not happen often, but every so often I'll hear it - Feel like I'm losing my mind a little wondering if I'm hearing it or not(From the speaker box itself) haha, like a tick/cracking plasticky sound. Just wanted to put that in here. I use 3 of the Mackie MR842 now as rear left right and back speaker for 6.2 setup. They're still great speakers for my use.

Let me start off by saying I've been in and out of professional studios for about 20 years and the mr824's are great! There is so much clarity and depth to the sound and its perfect for recording. THE ONLY REASON THIS IS GETTING 4 STARS is because in the listing for the product it states that it comes with protools. Mine did not and it appears that way for many others. Please update your listing so this is not confusing to other customers.

Out of the box one of the speakers had a rattle at certain frequencies. Called Mackie and they told me it was defective and to have Amazon replace it. 10 months later another one goes bad. Had cheap Tannoy monitors that lasted years with zero problems. Disappointed.

Very happy with these. Sound good and look really cool. Great value for the price.