Presonus Eris E4.5

Great speakers, good price

If you want to listen to music in a small room, these are for you

Good Value

I had these as my first speakers when starting out in the audio industry. I always considered them to be a really good fit as first studio monitors. After a couple of years I upgraded to Neumanns, but I still use the Eris E4.5 monitors as reference speakers, just to see how my music would sound on different speaker systems.

What was expected

I expected a good clear sound and I got a good clear sound.

They look very resistant and capable of lasting years.

Great speakers !

These speakers are great for a home studio !

Amazing sound!!!

what to say?!!! Amazing sound!!

Although the monitors are small in size they have a lot of power and beautiful sound!!

Value for money

Awesome monitors, would advise for everyday home use also.

Très bon son, mais mauvaise durée de vie

Achetées il y a un peu plus de 4 ans, rien à redire sur la qualité sonore, mais les boutons ont commencé à cracher après environ 2 ans, et un retour sav à été nécessaire après 1 an et demi d'utilisation pour cause de disfonctionnment.

Good monitors.

Good monitors for home. The sound is very clear and crispy. The bass range is not pronounced, but it is understandable for 4.5" speakers. For my taste the bass range was too low, and I bought subwoofer to complement them. With 8" subwoofer they sound very good!

The only annoyance with these monitors is very quiet but very annoying high frequency crackling hiss, when no sound is played through them. Odd thing is that hiss appeared when I put monitors on monitor stands. I am not sure why it is so, maybe on monitor stands they are better positioned, and I can better hear lower level sounds (in this case noise). When monitors are placed on the table I don't hear any hiss.

Entry level monitors

Bought them to use them for mixing/mastering in my home studio. After having and using for several months the youngest brother Eris E3.5 I decided to upgrade to E4.5s.

Sound related there is definitely more bass compared to the E3.5 with the highs to be similar. Sound related the biggest difference apart from the prominent bass is the mids where the E3.5 really shine. Here the mids are a bit muddy and when you do a mix with several tracks it is hard to separate frequencies. Don't get me wrong these are excellent budget studio monitors, I just feel that the E3.5 are more flat sounding.

Pros:

-Built Quality

-Features

Cons:

-Clarity on mids

-Price

Overall it's a very good studio monitor but with a few extra bucks you can go for the E5 which is by far the best of the 3.

sounds good but the build quality is low.

After a few weeks of very light use, the right speaker started to crackle. It was sent back for repair, several months after the repair the cracking sound started to appear again. Other users have reported the same issue so it's obviously a manufacturing error.