Have you seen the price of other monitor controllers there are some good ones that cost less but your not gonna beat the fact that this thing is passive, And it has the 1/8" input jack! And a mono button right on it( not that it is to hard to do it in your DAW, but at your fingertip!?). Sah dude?
$799 is too much HAHAHAHAHAHAHA go buy a proper monitor controller from brands like Dangerous Music, Crane or Slate then complain about prices, Mackie and Presonus stuff are ok, but not completely transparent, this particular product is actually cheap for the features and quality it offers.
The Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two. The components are really expensive and keep your audio path pristine. No colouration, inaudible crosstalk, unmeasurable distortion (we haven't managed to get a device successfully measure it yet!). Also, if you record the output of the Axis back into your DAW, phase flip the signal and play back against the original audio, it will completely phase cancel it. Try this with your monitor controller and you'll hear everything the monitor controller has changed. If you can clearly make out the song, that's pretty bad news....
so use a cheaper multi-way switch? also most of the cost here is the time spent hand-matching components for the left and right channels, which can be done on your own very easily for cheap
Cheaper switches screw up the stereo image and cause distortion. Also they wear out quickly. Plus, there's a ton of cheaper, lower quality products on the market already - why not buy one of those if price is your only concern? The components in this box total more than $300. Plus we have to ship it internationally (NOT free!!!), advertise it and if we're lucky, make a little profit out of it! If you can make a box as good as it in every spec and cheaper, then please send us your prototype and we'll give you a job.
Audiolinear obviously I could never make it at cost because of all the hand matching required by the use of cheaper components. Getting a consistent responce from a cheap selector means soldiering tiny blobs of soldier to match the capacitance of each path
More people need to talk about the importance of stepped relay transistors on the master control knob. Parity between your L and R source attenuation is so crucial and not something that most of the other manufacturers seem to get right in the long term. With the wear on a variable potentiometer you’ll expect to see some discrepancy in the stereo image over time.
Looks like this has some great features, though the price ($799?!) is a bit steep. Look up a company called New Old Sound, their McOne monitor controller has very similar specs and is less than $300.
We've used the McOne which feels utterly cheap and horrible, isn't actually passive (despite them advertising it! Yes, we've opening one up) and sounds terrible. Also, I know a company who used to sell them and they have a failure rate of over 50%. Good luck with that. I like this analogy: My Ford costs $20,000, why would I spend $200,000 on the Ferrari? Why? Because you want the best quality without compromise.
Audiolinear That's interesting, how would the McOne (black original version) in your opinion not qualify as a passive monitor controller? I'm not an expert on electronics so please do share your research!
Hi Vinnie. Slight typo actually, apologies! The McOne is indeed passive. What I meant to mention is that the McOne isn't actually Balanced, meaning it is incredibly likely and able to induce hum and noise into your signal. Not good! Very soon on our website we are going to have some audio samples of audio running through a bunch of monitors controllers so potential customers can hear what difference it will make on their own monitors! This should speak for itself. Also, please can you let me know which specs of the McOne are remotely close to the Axis, because I can't see any? I find it rather strange they don't seem to publish any specs like we do such as distortion, crosstalk (incredibly important for stereo image clarity!) and of course frequency response. If their specs are good, why not show them?
I'm searching for a monitor controller right now and I think that the Heritage Audio RAM System 2000 might be worth the extra 100. This is good though!
At 799 it should have a talkback at least. Needs to compete with the Drawmer MC2.1 and 3.1. Both of those have additional features anyway, including headphone routing and extra mixes, plus phase and L/R cut options.
That sounds awesome, but at that heavy price, I'd get a Drawmer for 600$ with 2 headphone controls and more. I know they're not exactly the same, but damn 800$, that's insanity.
The difference is $199. You might get more functionality with the Drawmer but the Axis won't colour your signal path AT ALL. It's pretty important to 100% trust what you are hearing when you are mixing, and a coloured signal unfortunately gets in the way of that. Surely an extra $199 to get a clear, true audio signal to your monitors that you can trust, rather than a coloured one that interferes with what you are doing in your mix is worth it? What does the person listening to your music care about at the end of the day? I believe it is that the mix (and therefore the song) sounds good, not that you had a headphone amp included for $199 less.
Not really....... It amazes me at how many really don't have the slightest grasp on actual pro hardware. This is cheap compared to what you'll find in various studios.
No one ever suggested quality is cheap and that is true, sadly. We'd like to make it cheaper but if it could be done, people like Mackie or Presonus would have done it already!
Audiolinear yeah that makes sense. It looks like a fantastic piece of gear though. Side note: i think it’s awesome you guys are interacting in the comments 👍
We expected people to have varying opinions and one thing we've noticed from our success in other countries is it's amazing how many people are ill-informed or otherwise uneducated about the importance of a good signal path in your monitoring chain, and that's it's really not as simple as "a few knobs and switches". We're here to help change that!
Question for you, I used to have a Coleman Audio Monitor controller that has the stepped volume knob. Sometimes when you are adjusting the volume with music playing I would hear just a little short scratch sound through the audio path as it was changing from one step to the next step. Do you hear this as well with the Audilinear Axis? It may just be the nature of a stepped volume knob.
Wish they would make one of these for a 5.1 surround studio setup. They seem to have discontinued them over the years from the lack of demand but I do film scores and don't really have any options.
I am curious why you say this is better than the Presonus, by which I assume you mean the Central Station. That has headphone out jacks, which this device does not. To me, those are more useful than the 1/8 input that this has. I'm not trying to be negative, just seeking clarification on what actually makes this so great in comparison.
Same though here! The PreSonus Central Station does everything this one do AND MORE for a cheaper price ... why is this one better? Because you don't have to plug it in? I am not sure about this.
All right, first it's not proper to bad mouth other companies. Second, did you notice that you just called everyone (including Ryan Bruce) that owns a CSP silly? I can't hardly believe that a brand would post a comment like this.
The only competitor of axis is the 2400 audio imperium who is passive and almost the same price. Now I wonder which one has the best sound transparency.
Wow was totally excited about learning more on this knob and first thing I see when I get to the site is "before you can enter our site" blah blah blah, never mind lol.
That thing seems really sick. That being said, I'd rather get an Apollo Twin MK II and get some inputs too ;) That being said, if you have your inputs figured out, this is definitely something I'd be into!
Apollo Twin is an interface and doesn't have multiple monitor outs. The Axis is a monitor controller and will allow switching up to three pairs of monitors will no colouration or distortion. Very different products!
Both in price and availability (audiolinear seems to have disappeared). Although today the very simple Heritage Baby Ram became available, which is interesting for smaller setups.
The core of this thing is a Swiss-made, 24-position stepped output volume attenuator, and a good project, but 799 for a passive gear even if the attenuator knob is swissmade sounds a bit overpriced to me.
799 for something with minimal functionality and no talkback? Yeah I’ll stick with my Drawmer MC3.1 which has band soloing, phase invert, even LR switching, with two amazing headphone amps, talkback, and more Input and output options.
Audiolinear well I’ll probably never get it , or “get” it, with a pretentious ass response like that. You’ve essentially just released a more expensive version of the New Old Sound McONE. A much uglier version might I add. Had you come at me with the facts and why it would be beneficial for my studio, maybe you’d have made a sale instead of poking the bear. Also, you continue with the snide remarks by saying “if your monitors and conversion are of high quality...) I co own an operate a 6000 square foot studio and retail space. Had you played your cards right you could have made a sale, and had a potential new distributor. You probably don’t care about the potentiality of loosing one sale, but you should. 🤙🏼
Have you HEARD the Axis? Actually, you can't because it does nothing to your sound quality. The big knob, however, really does. have you tried removing it from your audio chain and enjoyed all that lovely, uncoloured audio quality before?
I understand that they are probably a small company starting out and everything.. but 799$ for a couple switches.. a 24step switch even at high quality is not worth the half of it, and even then it lacks obvsl the headphone out and the talkback feature. I would go for the Presonus Monitor Station V2 even if it need a power suply it offer so much more, for less than half the price..
The Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two. It's really not as simple as "a couple fo switches. Those switches and connecters cost over $250, plus the cost of the chassis. Then we have to ship it internationally, advertise it, and maybe if we're lucky make a little profit at the end!
Around $250 of pots and switches (at our cost) plus an expensive and ridiculously sexy metal chassis. Then we have to ship it internationally, advertise it and sell it to retailers. Perhaps at the end we might be lucky enough to make a little profit so we can keep our kids in tootsie rolls!
"ridiculously sexy metal chassis". The last time I heard an official brand representative be so straight-forward I was looking at Razer's Twitter. :D (or dbrand's)
Price isn't that bad actually there is 300 bucks at least in parts in that assuming its a real stepped ladder attenuator, add switches, pots, jacks, enclosure, knobs, etc... 799 in reality is not terrible, your paying way more markup for your TV and Phone for example.
Thanks Nathaniel, you obviously have a good understand of manufacturing and how quality parts really do cost exponentially more than cheap, chinese versions!
“It’s only $799.00” says the guy who started mixing on a line 6 interface. $799.00 is quite a bit of money for the average person Fluff. Looks nice though. One thing I’ve learned with audio gear is you get what you pay for.
The product is intended for those who have valuable monitors and they don't want their audio coloured AT ALL - which cheaper products unfortunately do!
Absolutely not! We've loaned it to him! We met him at NAMM, and he's the nicest guy. He also asked us if we had plans for a monitor controllers with some other specific features and we absolutely do. He requested a few things that actually aren't on the market yet and we'll be taking those ideas on board ;)
Ridiculous price for a passive monitor control. Check out the New old school Mcone $299. Awesome looking well built and cheaper than this. Doesn’t color sound.
@@audiolinear7022 Add up the comments here, including mine, € or $ 79.99 is the fair price for this simple product. Which is one you do not even have to have in your signal path to make great recordings, see?
Have you not seen the price of the Coleman products, or the Dangerous and Crane Song units? They are far more expensive. Also, this unit is loaned, not given for free! :)
if you want to stretch your $ even further, behringer makes monitor controller as well....I had one for awhile. I ended up with the Drawmer MC 2, because my work requires accuracy....but powered is useful.
Why would you spend $5,000 on monitors, $3000 on a converter and then put an $80 product between them that ruins the sound quality of both? If you are spending $300-$500 on your interface and monitors, then the big knob is probably better for you because you wouldn't even hear the difference anyway.
The good thing about the Big Knob Passive is that its basically just an attenuator that just so happen to have extra features added to the attenuator itself.
Because to get audio COMPLETELY uncoloured and unchanged to up to three sets of monitors costs that money. You can get audio to monitors in a cheaper way but it will colour the signal and therefore distort your listening experience. When you are mixing and you need to 100% trust what you're hearing, that's important!
Come on, $799!!!!! Fluff, how much are u making off of these videos? The unit is nice for a passive units but it is more than double the cost most people will pay.
You're probably right about most people not buying this - but the Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two.
“Most people will pay“? Perhaps you would be unwilling to pay that much, and that is totally acceptable but I’m not exactly sure how you speak for the majority… Personally, I’m very sensitive to the dramatic amount of colouration that switching devices like this can cause. After spending a small fortune on a great set of monitors and interface, I’m pretty comfortable spending $800 on a product that will not induce colour itself. Perhaps my opinion is not the same as most people’s… But I would argue that given a good set of test conditions, “most people” can hear the difference.
$800? For a volume knob and a couple ins and outs? AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Ok ok, next tell us about how we can upgraded to a special wooden volume knob version for only $300 more.
The Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two. We aren't resorting to a wooden volume knob version though. Would you prefer a gold one? ;)
A gold knob version would be amazing as long as it heightens the transient flerbal zorticulation, as gold should do, which is something so commonly forgotten about in audio equipment design!
$7.99! That's fantastic! Wow, I thought it was going to be more like $70 or $80, but $7.99 that's awesom...wait a sec $799.00. Oh.
It’s $7.99. Captions confirm it at 4:05.
Sounds good, but 799$ ?? What aspect justifies that price?
Have you seen the price of other monitor controllers there are some good ones that cost less but your not gonna beat the fact that this thing is passive, And it has the 1/8" input jack! And a mono button right on it( not that it is to hard to do it in your DAW, but at your fingertip!?). Sah dude?
holy fucking g-sus, I thought 79.9. 799 is more than what I´ve paid for my adams!
All aspects
$799 is too much HAHAHAHAHAHAHA go buy a proper monitor controller from brands like Dangerous Music, Crane or Slate then complain about prices, Mackie and Presonus stuff are ok, but not completely transparent, this particular product is actually cheap for the features and quality it offers.
The Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two.
The components are really expensive and keep your audio path pristine. No colouration, inaudible crosstalk, unmeasurable distortion (we haven't managed to get a device successfully measure it yet!). Also, if you record the output of the Axis back into your DAW, phase flip the signal and play back against the original audio, it will completely phase cancel it. Try this with your monitor controller and you'll hear everything the monitor controller has changed. If you can clearly make out the song, that's pretty bad news....
All this for only $7.99?! Sign me up! 😏
It being completely passive makes me feel like it would be very easy to DIY. Just a lot of switches jacks and voltage dividers.
799 for 10dollars of components
The elma switch alone is $120, in quantity
so use a cheaper multi-way switch? also most of the cost here is the time spent hand-matching components for the left and right channels, which can be done on your own very easily for cheap
Cheaper switches screw up the stereo image and cause distortion. Also they wear out quickly. Plus, there's a ton of cheaper, lower quality products on the market already - why not buy one of those if price is your only concern?
The components in this box total more than $300. Plus we have to ship it internationally (NOT free!!!), advertise it and if we're lucky, make a little profit out of it!
If you can make a box as good as it in every spec and cheaper, then please send us your prototype and we'll give you a job.
Audiolinear obviously I could never make it at cost because of all the hand matching required by the use of cheaper components. Getting a consistent responce from a cheap selector means soldiering tiny blobs of soldier to match the capacitance of each path
More people need to talk about the importance of stepped relay transistors on the master control knob. Parity between your L and R source attenuation is so crucial and not something that most of the other manufacturers seem to get right in the long term. With the wear on a variable potentiometer you’ll expect to see some discrepancy in the stereo image over time.
Looks like this has some great features, though the price ($799?!) is a bit steep. Look up a company called New Old Sound, their McOne monitor controller has very similar specs and is less than $300.
We've used the McOne which feels utterly cheap and horrible, isn't actually passive (despite them advertising it! Yes, we've opening one up) and sounds terrible. Also, I know a company who used to sell them and they have a failure rate of over 50%. Good luck with that.
I like this analogy: My Ford costs $20,000, why would I spend $200,000 on the Ferrari?
Why?
Because you want the best quality without compromise.
Audiolinear That's interesting, how would the McOne (black original version) in your opinion not qualify as a passive monitor controller? I'm not an expert on electronics so please do share your research!
Hi Vinnie. Slight typo actually, apologies! The McOne is indeed passive. What I meant to mention is that the McOne isn't actually Balanced, meaning it is incredibly likely and able to induce hum and noise into your signal. Not good!
Very soon on our website we are going to have some audio samples of audio running through a bunch of monitors controllers so potential customers can hear what difference it will make on their own monitors! This should speak for itself.
Also, please can you let me know which specs of the McOne are remotely close to the Axis, because I can't see any? I find it rather strange they don't seem to publish any specs like we do such as distortion, crosstalk (incredibly important for stereo image clarity!) and of course frequency response. If their specs are good, why not show them?
I'm searching for a monitor controller right now and I think that the Heritage Audio RAM System 2000 might be worth the extra 100. This is good though!
RAM is truly fantastic but SPL has some amazing options too and those are mastering grade
At 799 it should have a talkback at least. Needs to compete with the Drawmer MC2.1 and 3.1. Both of those have additional features anyway, including headphone routing and extra mixes, plus phase and L/R cut options.
We do have a version coming with Talkback, quality headphone amps, Cue mix etc. Also, it is not possible to have a phase control in a passive design!
Audiolinear great to hear that! Thanks for the response
We'd LOVE to do this cheaper but it's really not possible. Not if you want a nice big sexy knob that doesn't ruin your audio signal!
That sounds awesome, but at that heavy price, I'd get a Drawmer for 600$ with 2 headphone controls and more. I know they're not exactly the same, but damn 800$, that's insanity.
The difference is $199. You might get more functionality with the Drawmer but the Axis won't colour your signal path AT ALL. It's pretty important to 100% trust what you are hearing when you are mixing, and a coloured signal unfortunately gets in the way of that. Surely an extra $199 to get a clear, true audio signal to your monitors that you can trust, rather than a coloured one that interferes with what you are doing in your mix is worth it? What does the person listening to your music care about at the end of the day? I believe it is that the mix (and therefore the song) sounds good, not that you had a headphone amp included for $199 less.
Not really.......
It amazes me at how many really don't have the slightest grasp on actual pro hardware. This is cheap compared to what you'll find in various studios.
@@audiolinear7022 If indeed you worry SO MUCH sound about coloration -- just stop using a monitor controller, period.
Have you noticed any impedance issues since there is no input or output buffer?
Hi, just curious if you have compared this with the Audient Nero?
Exactly 😂
Love that you can check mixes in mono on the fly, and it’s 100% passive. Price is a little steep though but I guess that’s the story of pro-level gear
No one ever suggested quality is cheap and that is true, sadly. We'd like to make it cheaper but if it could be done, people like Mackie or Presonus would have done it already!
Audiolinear yeah that makes sense. It looks like a fantastic piece of gear though. Side note: i think it’s awesome you guys are interacting in the comments 👍
We expected people to have varying opinions and one thing we've noticed from our success in other countries is it's amazing how many people are ill-informed or otherwise uneducated about the importance of a good signal path in your monitoring chain, and that's it's really not as simple as "a few knobs and switches". We're here to help change that!
Question for you, I used to have a Coleman Audio Monitor controller that has the stepped volume knob. Sometimes when you are adjusting the volume with music playing I would hear just a little short scratch sound through the audio path as it was changing from one step to the next step. Do you hear this as well with the Audilinear Axis? It may just be the nature of a stepped volume knob.
Wish they would make one of these for a 5.1 surround studio setup. They seem to have discontinued them over the years from the lack of demand but I do film scores and don't really have any options.
I believe Audient makes one
Serious monitor upgrade 😍
Can't believe you skipped the most important thing? How does it sound? Does it color the sound at all?
Nice. I dig it.
You're amazing bro 🤘
I am curious why you say this is better than the Presonus, by which I assume you mean the Central Station. That has headphone out jacks, which this device does not. To me, those are more useful than the 1/8 input that this has. I'm not trying to be negative, just seeking clarification on what actually makes this so great in comparison.
Same though here! The PreSonus Central Station does everything this one do AND MORE for a cheaper price ... why is this one better? Because you don't have to plug it in? I am not sure about this.
All right, first it's not proper to bad mouth other companies. Second, did you notice that you just called everyone (including Ryan Bruce) that owns a CSP silly? I can't hardly believe that a brand would post a comment like this.
The only competitor of axis is the 2400 audio imperium who is passive and almost the same price. Now I wonder which one has the best sound transparency.
Both are more or less equally transparent. The Imperium is a stunning product, well worth a look if you want a rack-mounted alternative!
Wow was totally excited about learning more on this knob and first thing I see when I get to the site is "before you can enter our site" blah blah blah, never mind lol.
That thing seems really sick. That being said, I'd rather get an Apollo Twin MK II and get some inputs too ;) That being said, if you have your inputs figured out, this is definitely something I'd be into!
Apollo Twin is an interface and doesn't have multiple monitor outs. The Axis is a monitor controller and will allow switching up to three pairs of monitors will no colouration or distortion. Very different products!
This seems like a really good piece of gear, but Audient's new Nero Monitor Controller has it beat.
Both in price and availability (audiolinear seems to have disappeared). Although today the very simple Heritage Baby Ram became available, which is interesting for smaller setups.
The core of this thing is a Swiss-made, 24-position stepped output volume attenuator, and a good project, but 799 for a passive gear even if the attenuator knob is swissmade sounds a bit overpriced to me.
my heart skipped when you dropped it
He's getting a quote for a new floor apparently!
Can't I just once be fluff and you be wonderful?
Yeah, he's sick of being 'the tunnel' ...
Hell of a setup this guy has, fucking awesome!
no xlr ?
*I need a mixer to mix the audio interface’s mixer with the DAW’s mixer and the OS taskbar mixer.*
Where is the link to get it
When will the studio tour come?
Does passive monitor controllers degrades audio quality/resolution?
799 for something with minimal functionality and no talkback? Yeah I’ll stick with my Drawmer MC3.1 which has band soloing, phase invert, even LR switching, with two amazing headphone amps, talkback, and more Input and output options.
Audiolinear
well I’ll probably never get it , or “get” it, with a pretentious ass response like that.
You’ve essentially just released a more expensive version of the New Old Sound McONE. A much uglier version might I add.
Had you come at me with the facts and why it would be beneficial for my studio, maybe you’d have made a sale instead of poking the bear.
Also, you continue with the snide remarks by saying “if your monitors and conversion are of high quality...)
I co own an operate a 6000 square foot studio and retail space. Had you played your cards right you could have made a sale, and had a potential new distributor. You probably don’t care about the potentiality of loosing one sale, but you should. 🤙🏼
I get a preamp instead. burson conductor v2
What're those monitors behind him?
What about the subwoofer?
Fluff! Do a studio tour please!
No maquilla el sonido??
Mackie Big Knob passive.
Have you HEARD the Axis? Actually, you can't because it does nothing to your sound quality.
The big knob, however, really does. have you tried removing it from your audio chain and enjoyed all that lovely, uncoloured audio quality before?
Jesus this new adams behind you. What in the hell
I understand that they are probably a small company starting out and everything.. but 799$ for a couple switches.. a 24step switch even at high quality is not worth the half of it, and even then it lacks obvsl the headphone out and the talkback feature. I would go for the Presonus Monitor Station V2 even if it need a power suply it offer so much more, for less than half the price..
The Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two. It's really not as simple as "a couple fo switches. Those switches and connecters cost over $250, plus the cost of the chassis. Then we have to ship it internationally, advertise it, and maybe if we're lucky make a little profit at the end!
anyone know where to get that shirt?
Jared Dines merch.
799..... for case with pots and some switches.....
Around $250 of pots and switches (at our cost) plus an expensive and ridiculously sexy metal chassis. Then we have to ship it internationally, advertise it and sell it to retailers. Perhaps at the end we might be lucky enough to make a little profit so we can keep our kids in tootsie rolls!
"ridiculously sexy metal chassis". The last time I heard an official brand representative be so straight-forward I was looking at Razer's Twitter. :D (or dbrand's)
Look like a Shamwow Vince commercial. Too much excitement from the salesman :-)
Sold out!?
Did you get some new monitors yo?
That is like a bigger version of the Mackie Big Knob Passive.
And better ;)
YOU DROPPED IT AHAUHAUHAUA laughed here
1.22 hahahaha you dropped it
How about some really cheap and good monitors?
I've been happy with my cheap af Monoprice monitors.
I have yamaha hs7. I have compared 10+ pair of monitors at the same time. I chose hs7.
I guess the company went under? I kinda wanted to buy one of these
Yeah I think they did
@@RiffsAndBeards audient nero i guess then?
New monitors?
Price isn't that bad actually there is 300 bucks at least in parts in that assuming its a real stepped ladder attenuator, add switches, pots, jacks, enclosure, knobs, etc... 799 in reality is not terrible, your paying way more markup for your TV and Phone for example.
Thanks Nathaniel, you obviously have a good understand of manufacturing and how quality parts really do cost exponentially more than cheap, chinese versions!
just buy the XENYX CONTROL2USB
Im getting one soon it is way better specs and you can get it for under $200
Ok, I dont get it. Every audio interface I’ve ever owned has a volume knob, why pay £800 for an extra one?
Because you can't switch between three pairs of monitors on your interface.
Seriously...... is that it? Switch to different monitors for £800?
Check out the Crane Song Avocet for £2650. To be able to route audio at the highest possibly quality costs money!
Nero over this anyday o da year
I need one now that I have multiple monitors and been looking at the nero for months. Think im gonna pull the trigger and get it.
“It’s only $799.00” says the guy who started mixing on a line 6 interface. $799.00 is quite a bit of money for the average person Fluff. Looks nice though. One thing I’ve learned with audio gear is you get what you pay for.
Do they have a rack mounted version of this unit?
Not yet ;)
These guys stop making? Can't seem to find anything about them
Or you have an appollo twin
$799!? That's more expensive than most monitors. Nope.
The product is intended for those who have valuable monitors and they don't want their audio coloured AT ALL - which cheaper products unfortunately do!
They need to charge $800 for this cuz they paid him to make this video 😎
Life Of Chris he said they didn’t pay him
Chris Answeeney ok and bill Clinton said Monica didn't suck him off but what happened there 🤔
HAHA This is true, if anything he got that controller for free.
Absolutely not! We've loaned it to him! We met him at NAMM, and he's the nicest guy. He also asked us if we had plans for a monitor controllers with some other specific features and we absolutely do. He requested a few things that actually aren't on the market yet and we'll be taking those ideas on board ;)
Can't help but feel like you kinda buried the lede just offhandedly mentioning that this thing is $800
799usd for monitor volume controller? That's too much too much too much. Much higher than the price of Good pair of Yamaha Hs8 monitors
Daily videos? Is this real life?
Ridiculous price for a passive monitor control. Check out the New old school Mcone $299. Awesome looking well built and cheaper than this. Doesn’t color sound.
799 no thanks
What would you prefer to pay?
@@audiolinear7022 Add up the comments here, including mine, € or $ 79.99 is the fair price for this simple product. Which is one you do not even have to have in your signal path to make great recordings, see?
ok who in their right mind would spend this much on a monitor controller when for literally a tenth the price you can get a mackie bigknob?
Ryan Bruce Passive controller sucks ass haha
By best, you mean most expensive? No wonder they can afford to give-away units for reviews. Didn't even get to hear it, here ...
Have you not seen the price of the Coleman products, or the Dangerous and Crane Song units? They are far more expensive.
Also, this unit is loaned, not given for free! :)
Those features don't justify that price IMO.
Those monitors are sex
Axis $800 vs a Big Knob for $70 ... hmmmm
if you want to stretch your $ even further, behringer makes monitor controller as well....I had one for awhile.
I ended up with the Drawmer MC 2, because my work requires accuracy....but powered is useful.
like the JBL
I just tape the bare wires together. Different speakers re-tape. Tape is cheap.
Why would you spend $5,000 on monitors, $3000 on a converter and then put an $80 product between them that ruins the sound quality of both? If you are spending $300-$500 on your interface and monitors, then the big knob is probably better for you because you wouldn't even hear the difference anyway.
The good thing about the Big Knob Passive is that its basically just an attenuator that just so happen to have extra features added to the attenuator itself.
normal that this doenst exist anymore...799, loooool
The biggest question is would you pay $800 for this product.
kumaclimber I get a headphone amp + preamp instead. Burson conductor v2.
Because to get audio COMPLETELY uncoloured and unchanged to up to three sets of monitors costs that money. You can get audio to monitors in a cheaper way but it will colour the signal and therefore distort your listening experience. When you are mixing and you need to 100% trust what you're hearing, that's important!
Way too expensive
What would you prefer to pay?
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$799 HUH... I MEAN HUH?
I’m guessing they are out of business…
Come on, $799!!!!!
Fluff, how much are u making off of these videos?
The unit is nice for a passive units but it is more than double the cost most people will pay.
You're probably right about most people not buying this - but the Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two.
“Most people will pay“? Perhaps you would be unwilling to pay that much, and that is totally acceptable but I’m not exactly sure how you speak for the majority… Personally, I’m very sensitive to the dramatic amount of colouration that switching devices like this can cause. After spending a small fortune on a great set of monitors and interface, I’m pretty comfortable spending $800 on a product that will not induce colour itself. Perhaps my opinion is not the same as most people’s… But I would argue that given a good set of test conditions, “most people” can hear the difference.
Passive doesn't mean it's good.
Passive is not good!
That's cool, but you think it's amazing because you got it for free. If you had to pay $800 you would think it's just alright
Fluff didn't get it for free, he's just trying it out
Lawrence Ames he's using it for free
We loaned it to him to review, he was more than happy to do so because he loved it!
Audiolinear I'd love to review it if you loaned it to me, but I would never buy it.
Thanks for the offer. How many subscribers do you have?
Insanity. The monitor controller shouldn’t cost as much as your speakers. It’s a glorified a/b/y switch
$800? For a volume knob and a couple ins and outs?
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Ok ok, next tell us about how we can upgraded to a special wooden volume knob version for only $300 more.
The Axis is for professionals who have spent maybe $5000 on their monitors and interface and don't want to utterly destroy their signal quality by putting a cheap monitor controller between the two.
We aren't resorting to a wooden volume knob version though. Would you prefer a gold one? ;)
A gold knob version would be amazing as long as it heightens the transient flerbal zorticulation, as gold should do, which is something so commonly forgotten about in audio equipment design!
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Way overpriced.