GEAR REVIEW
PRESONUS ERIS E3.5 ACTIVE MEDIA REFERENCE MONITORS | Doug Doppler
KEY FEATURES
share this review for the Eris E3.5 nearfield speakers that don’t ‘hype’ certain frequencies
monitors with you! Are they brand new, no, to ‘sound better’ are key to getting great mixes.
• 3.5” Kevlar Woofer but in many ways this review will be hugely If you’re new to the mixing game the good
• 1” Silk Dome Tweeter advantageous for anyone interested, or in need news is that you don’t have to spend an arm
• 25 Watts per Speaker of a great sounding pair of monitors with a and a leg if you don’t want to.
• 1/4” Balanced, 1/8” Mini, and RCA
Inputs it for tracking, mixing, video post-production, While these are great on their own, the Eris
gaming, A/B’ing with larger monitors, the Eris E3.5 reference monitors are also a perfect
E3.5s may be the best value on the speaker complement to larger nearfield monitors like
market today! my Eris E8s. We’ve known for a long time that
• RF Interference Protection
• No Wall Wart
form factor that is perfect for your desktop. Be
we’re increasingly mixing for people listening
One of the great things about reviewing gear is As a bit of background, I’m a huge fan of the on small desktop speakers, and while most
that you often have the opportunity to put the Eris E8 studio monitors, so when I heard about desktop computer speakers tend to hype
latest and hopefully greatest gear to the test. the release of the E3.5s I immediately reached frequencies to make them sound bigger and
The down side is that you frequently miss out out to my contact at PreSonus for a pair to better than they actually are (sometimes in
on what is arguably the most important factor review. Over the years I’ve tracked a number of combination with a subwoofer), the Eris E3.5s
– the hours, days, and weeks actually spent projects at my home studio, including the guitar bring a degree of clarity to desktop speakers
using it. Craigslist is filled with gear decisions and bass parts I cut for Guitar Hero. While it that is kind of mind blowing. The specs say that
gone wrong, which is why I’m so excited to sounds somewhat obvious, great sounding the frequency response is 80Hz to 20kHz and
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