Mackie CR4-X 4 inch Multimedia Monitors

I have had these monitors for over a year now and I must say for the price these are very high quality! Sound is amazing and will fill a room with every sound detail with great clarity and quality!

My new rv sound system lacked a lot of sound quality. These speakers were just right for my desired tone and volume. A more powerful set would have gotten me kicked out of most rv parks. The required amperage for these speakers did not require running an additional wire to my battery. I'm very satisfied!

I purchased these and then freaked out when I saw reviews on YouTube that these have a bad hiss to them. So when I first received them, I took them out of the box and plugged them right into the wall. No noise whatsoever. Then I use the balanced input and output out of the Mackie 8 sub to hook them up and still 0 noise. Actually I wouldn't even know they were on if the light did not illuminate. So I don't know if Mackie has fixed the issue or some people have gotten defective units. But these things are great. I'm a tech house producer and the clarity of the speakers is amazing. They call these budget, well I don't see why you would need anything else.

I had to return these speakers. They sound quite pleasant when they do, which is intermittent. Amplifier has a feature intended to mute the speakers when they are idle (so they do not make a soft hissing sound when there is no input). The design of this noise gate circuit makes it susceptible to a range of issues so the speakers cannot determine reliably when they are actually idle. This means that if, for example, you are playing music that has any kind of range, you will notice sound cutting in and out - noise gate switching is not instantaneous and is easily triggered by softer-sounding sections. Manufacturer's suggestion is to turn up the volume at the source. This, however, does not alleviate the issue for reasons that should be self-evident.There are more technical workarounds, but I did not want to spend a weekend voiding warranties with oscilloscope and soldering iron trying to fix someone else's bad product. That said, they look cute, so 1 star for aesthetics.

great speakers for the price, obviously a little lacking in the lower end but other then that I have no issues with these. I don't think there are a better pair of monitors at this price. Even for a non music enthusiast they really pack a huge punch for 100 bucks.

I liked how the box came and it was really esay to open. I though it was going to be bigger but it was not and thats alright and thank you for the fast delivery!

First, let me start by saying the quality of sound from these speakers has been very good. They do not seem to have any specific bias making it easy to put together audio mixes accurately. They have plenty of punch for my home studio and I find that I can run them at about a quarter volume without becoming overwhelmingly loud for the space. They were easy to setup and get attached to my system, and I bought a few wall mounted stands to integrate them fully into my setup.My biggest complaint, and one of the primary reasons I would never recommend these monitors to anyone doing music production is that they have a built in noise-gate (likely to combat static/hiss at lower volumes) that cannot be adjusted. For many mixes, this isn't a problem and goes unnoticed. However, when I'm doing a piano based mix or a classical orchestration, when the volume gets low from the input side of the speaker, the noise gate activates making it impossible to use these alone to put together a mix.I will be contacting Mackie at some point to see if they can provide solutions other than "make sure the source input volume is at maximum" -- as even this does not work with piano and orchestrated pieces. At a minimum, it would be nice to have an adjustment knob or a switch that allows you to disable the noise gate -- as this is becoming the single most annoying aspect of these monitors.If the noise gate was adjustable, I would easily give these monitors 5 stars, but I wrestled between 2 or 3 stars for this review -- it's just that annoying.

The quick rundown. These CR4-X are a replacement for my old CR3 that were fried during an massive power surge (that went through a surge protector). I am purely happy with them. These are probably the only speakers on the market that far surpass all desktop speakers but fall below that studio tier of mixing speakers. For the price point, these can’t be beat.They have a full, rich sound. If you want to crank some music, run them as-is. If you want to mix some music, stuff the ports with a sock. If you do that, the sound is flatter for a truer neutral mix.On a lot of reviews of things you see people mention, “if these ever break I’ll buy them again!” In this case, it’s actually true…and I upgraded from the 3” to the 4”. Get some!