Fluid Audio FX80 2-stars Reviews

GREAT, if you can get used to the ever-present HISS.

These monitors look great, and I really wanted to love them - BUT...

There is an ever present hiss that you can do nothing about. People say they get used to it and it's not noticeable once you're playing music. Sure, if you're using these for playing music on a tuna boat and not using them as studio monitors, then ok, I get it. For me, the hiss was unforgivable, and even more annoying that it is there at all. The hiss is immediately noticeable when sitting down in front of the monitors with nothing playing through them at all. They're just powered on. Hissing.

When actually working on music - or listening to music at low volume, the hiss is some sort of floor noise that is present regardless of your volume setting on the monitor itself, so whatever you're doing through the monitors is a blend of that and the white noise. It doesn't go away. I don't understand how people could say, it becomes 'less noticeable'. I had to return my pair because I couldn't accept the monitors as a source of that amount of noise. These were not sequential serial numbers, or faulty in any way. The FX-80 is a noisy monitor and perhaps if you're working in a bigger room or something like that, it would be less of an issue for you. Unfortunately didn't work for me.