Which Speakers?

[Jmb79]

Hi,

Just getting back into home djing after a very very long time. I’ve got a pair of pioneer plx500’s and a djm 350. However I don’t know whether to buy a pair of active monitors like Rokit 5s or a pair of passive speakers and an amp? I just want to mix and enjoy the music and like a heavy bass so am leaning towards the latter. If that’s the general recommendation can anyone suggest some decent budget passive speakers?

Thanks

[light-o-matic]

Passive vs Active makes no difference so far as the amount of bass. If you want lots of bass you will want a subwoofer.

If I were in your shoes definitely I would go with powered monitors with a powered sub

[conanski]

+1 on going with active speakers and for buying a sub, powered is where the bang for the buck is these days. Also strongly suggest you demo the speakers if you can, get into a store and listen to a few different models with and without the matching sub.

[Jmb79]

Thank you both for the advice. I will go down the active speaker route then and look to add a sub as well.

Thanks.

[light-o-matic]

Yea agree with conanski, listen before you buy if you can.
The Rockits are cool but they would not be my first choice for sound quality. But a pair of 5's with the matching s10 sub would not suck and the price is good.

The main claim to fame of the rockits is that they have a lot of bass (for a monitor), but you don't care about that because for real bass you will want a sub. Get the best sounding monitor you can afford based on how it sounds in mids and highs.. w/o worrying about how much bass it has.. get the sub for that. But obv everything costs money and monitors can really get expensive.. so shop around a bit.