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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Thanks to its sophisticated design, our 5.25-inch MR5 Mackie Reference Monitor delivers superior sound with impeccable clarity?at an unbelievable price. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Weight: | 20.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 15.9 inches | | Package Width: | 13.8 inches | | Package Height: | 11.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 17.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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| | Features | Free Field Frequency Response: 60Hz - 20kHz (±3dB)Lower Cutoff Frequency: -3dB @ 60HzUpper Cutoff Frequency: -3dB @ 22kHzSound Pressure Level @ 1 meter, +4dBu into Balanced Input: 100dB SPL @ 1mMaximum SPL Per Pair: 113dB SPL @ 1m
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 Mackie MR5 Monitor Apr 27, 2010
Outstanding sound at a reasonable price.
I jam with a couple friends and use Garageband with an Alesis firewire mixer to record our music. We normally wear headphones while recording (to avoid feedback), then listen back to the recorded sound using the MR5. The sound from the MR5 is nearly identical to the sound from full around-the-ear headphones.
The MR5 sounds exactly like it should - very clear and very true to the original sound.
I couldn't ask for better at this price for my home studio.
0 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Good sound. Built horribly. Jun 20, 2009
Mackie MR5 (Pair) Reference Monitors
I bought a pair of these brand new. They sound great. However, the first one blew under very low gain. It powers on, and no sound. The second ones sub blew under the same conditions. At this point I want a refund for the entire retail value. This is ridiculous.
Outstanding sound for the price Feb 09, 2009
I'd been lusting after a pair of Mackie studio monitors for a while. Our 32" Sony LCD TV has a good picture but sound limited by its tiny speakers and the Mackie HR624MkII sounded better to me than any competing studio monitors. But it's hard to justify buying speakers that cost more than the TV. When the MR5 appeared, it seemed like the answer. I bought a pair and I'm very pleased with them now they've had a few hours of break-in. And I'm hard to please - my stereo system has a pair of Magnepan MG1.6 speakers driven by an 800 watt amplifier.
These are powered speakers, so all you do is connect them to an audio source that has its own volume control and you're set. They're studio monitors with a smooth, flat frequency response, so you may find they have less kick than speakers you're used to. They don't output much below 60 Hz so you won't shake the walls with them but when I play orchestral music in a 400 sq. ft. room they don't seem stressed. No listener fatigue! They're not tiny - it's hard to make lots of sound with a tiny box - but they're small enough for computer speakers.
Different people like different speakers, but I'll give you my picks for what they're worth. In this price range, the MR5 is the best, but the KRK RP5 is a worthy competitor and can be mounted against a wall, unlike the MR5. If you're really short of money or space, look at the Logitech Z-2300 system ($90). For more bass, move up to the MR8 or HR624MkII.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
after one day, cant see what i did without it Jan 21, 2009
i have owned several sets of monitors(fostex,hafler) and have always tried to find good deals, as a result, never had a really good monitor. so i paid the 180$ for my first mackie!! if you spend alot of time recording and playing the mr5 is great. my drum machine and kaoss pad sound great through the mr5, i finally understand what the pros mean by listening fatique, put it simple, the sound is pure,deep, and sweet, and it has a very inviting sound. and im suprised that i really do not miss having a second monitor, im in a small room, and the mr5 fills it w no distortion. highly recommend!
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Mackie performance for a steal! Jan 15, 2009
FIRST THING FIRST...
Forget speaker set-ups and systems that unnecessarily add treble and bass to the music you're listening to including ones with active equalization that determine on your behalf what you're ears should be perceiving at the moment and eliminating other frequencies that it believes aren't as audible anyway.
How about jumping back into studio monitors that deliver music the way the recording engineers meant it to be heard. Too expensive? Hold on. Not with a Mackie MR5. The price you pay is per piece all right, but don't forget these are powered speakers. And at this price point you get a flat frequency response which means there is no colorization. What is recorded is what you get.
Studio monitors used to be so expensive and out of reach that consumers were bombarded with those other brands that promised to wow your ears with a "perception" of full spectrum audio rather than actually provide your ears with, umm, a full spectrum.
Finally Mackie decided to release lower end audio gear with high end results that appeals to everyone else outside of the audiophile world.
APPLICATION...
These speakers are built with 3 types of audio connections.
1. Balanced XLR
2. Balanced TRS (which also can accept unbalanced TS)
3. Unbalanced RCA
Originally intended for near-field monitoring as well as accurate enough for home studio mixing. But knock yourselves out in using these anywhere you see fit. If it's good for mixing, it's great for whatever else.
I used it as my desktop computer speakers. If your computer has a 1/8 stereo output a.k.a. mini-stereo then just purchase a simple (but solidly constructed) 1/8" stereo to RCA cable.
HOW DOES IT SOUND...
GREAT! However, you need to re-orient your ears if you've been used to unnecessary and heavy equalized equipment. Take a moment to listen to your favourite CD. One that you are very familiar with from beginning to end. Turn off or flatten the equalizer setting. Take one pass on it and determine if you really to highlight or defeat certain frequencies only because you either have wall to wall carpeting and draperies or bare walls.
You're goal is to listen to music the way it was recorded. If you have unbiased speakers in all frequency range then you will notice nuances in the recording that you never even thought was there. Seriously.
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW...
Although this is the smallest of the Mackie studio monitoring speakers, it's still a force to be reckoned with in terms of performance, size and weight. And that's a good thing. It looks, feels and performs like any solid studio monitor. Nothing has been spared. Rather than spend money on marketing, they spend it on actual R&D and build quality.
Frequency response of 60HZ-20KHZ (+-3db) with internal bi-amplification of 55 watts (85 watts peak) for the low frequency and 30 watts (50 watts peak) for the high frequency. And don't be fooled by other speaker manufacture ratings stating 200 watts power which don't mean a thing unless they meant peak power before the internal fuse blows while already clipping at maximum distortion. Did you hear how loud your built-in television speakers can get. To think they are rated from 3 to 6 watts only. So with these truthful power rating, these Mackies are LOUD! Your ears neighbours will come knocking first before you can blow the fuse of these speakers.
COMPARED WITH...
The truth is I was perfectly happy with my Blue Sky MediaDesk 2.1 speakers just because I couldn't afford a THX pm3-approved Mackie HR624 at that time. The frequency response was awesome at 35HZ-20KHz. The speakers were fully sealed which provided less distortion and true bass output. I tossed the boxes so I decided to sell them when I moved cross-country than risk damaging perfectly great speakers.
I now moved the Mackie MR5 pair to the living room and disabled the built-in speakers of the television and then obtained a pair of KRK Rokit Powered 6 Generation 2 studio monitors which is equally accurate as the Mackie, but has better frequency response at 48HZ-20KHz (+-1.5db) due to it's 6" low frequency driver.
WHAT TO GET...
If you're budget allows for a Mackie, I would get an MR5. A cheaper alternative but still along it's price range is the KRK RP5G2 which also comes with a 5" low frequency driver. But for the same price as the Mackie MR5 is the KRK RP6G2 with better frequency response and a hefty weight and size to boot.
The difference is the porting on the cabinet. Mackie believes in using a rear port, while KRK argues a front port is better as it allows more flexible placement without fear from unnecessary bass response due from the rear ports when placed nearer against the wall.
My recommendation is to listen to both at your nearest studio monitor dealer that stocks both and decide. In the future you can expand to a 2.1 configuration to extend the bass response even lower by purchasing their own respective subwoofer counterparts. As usual, KRK products are better priced so this might affect your decision now the same way it did to me.
If you want a 2.1 configuration right now, then the Blue Sky MediaDesk 2.1 with it's sealed cabinet enclosure all throughout will make sure that the bass you hear is the bass coming from the subwoofer and not from any port which only exists to help extend bass response to a lower frequency.
Either of this you won't go wrong. But please do yourself a favor and get yourself a decent studio monitor than an exorbitantly priced speaker set from a manufacturer that (1) either advertises amplification and frequency response that can be achieved at full clipping power or (2) won't even advertise their specifications at all and then claim their "actual" performance doesn't do justice to the over-equalized supposed sound output.
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