Mackie MR824 -Channel Studio Monitor

Not many reviews on this, so I wanted to add my 2 cents.
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.

Failed almost immediately and customer service is terrible.
I purchased a brand new MRS10 to go along with a newly bought Mackie 402VLZ mixer and MR524 speakers. The MRS10 stopped working after less than 1 month and was producing clicking noises. I called Mackie and had to send them proof of purchase, even after having already registered with proof of purchase, because the customer service rep was easily confused and somehow thought it wasn’t under warranty despite being just bought. It took three days for them to tell me that it was under warranty and to take it to a service center, which is exactly what I was telling them the whole time. My service center took 6 weeks with it only to tell me it was not repairable and that they called Mackie who told them I should send it back so they can send me a new one. I picked it up from the service center and called Mackie back. They were once again dumb founded by the situation and didn’t know what to do. They did replace it, though the replacement is an obvious refurbished unit that didn’t even include a product box or the included foot switch. I bought a brand new unit and ended up with a refurbished one which is highly disappointing. My advice is to go with a more reputable company. On the plus side the system does sound good.Update: The replacement unit they sent failed completely within a week. Customer service was even worse the second time to the point that they stopped replying to me, and no I was not being rude. Because it took so long to get the new unit I lost the ability to return the original defective one for a refund. Mackie could not care less, they also refused to refund me. I bought a KRK to take its place and I love it. I will never buy Mackie products again.

I have been using these for a few months and wanted to wait before reviewing. I was deciding between The KRK Rokit 5 and these and chose these, I am not disappointed. I like to produce various genres of music and find these great for that. They have the low end and then some! No need for a Sub if you are a bedroom producer. They are super clear and the way they are engineered I can have them pointing either directly in towards my ears or straight out and the sounds remains almost identical due to the logarithmic waveguide.To be honest I do notice a very slight buzz that’s been mentioned in other reviews, however I maintain my five stars because I really don’t notice it unless I am really trying to listen for it. It’s barely noticeable and does not at all interfere with my ability to mix and master. I did purchase what I thought were magnetically shielded cables from Amazon but somewhere down the line I will purchase another higher quality set and see what difference it makes.

Very clean sound. But use it with a stand and proper placements to take full advantage of it. Also be mind full of the distortions and digital noise if possible use balanced cable inputs instead of unbalanced.