What kind of external speakers do you use?

[barnelby]

I just bought a yamaha p-120 with speakers from a drummer who wanted to learn to play piano, but just ended up jamming along with the tracks on the piano... ...The speakers are rokit 5 studio monitor speakers. They are absolutely amazing, but I noticed that one of them is crackling when I go low. I am sure that this is because in order to play drums along with the tracks you'd have to crank it quite a bit...but I am also wondering if studio monitor speakers are made to handle the low end of a grand piano/organ at a reasonable volume (less than one quarter volume on the piano)? Luckily I do home record/mix so I will probably just recruit those speakers to record with..but I need something for my p-120....what kind of speakers are popular in these parts?

[andric_s]

Studio monitors certainly are designed to handle that volume and more. 

It sounds like one of your speakers is blown, probably from the use you imagineed.  Or, less likely, there's a bad connection that crackles from the vibration-- but probably its just blown.  "Powered monitors" are what you're looking at, ones that don't require an external amplifier.  These are designed for use in a studio.  It seems like the rokits are a good product... yours is just busted.

I don't use my P80 at home, so I never got little monitors (I have all sorts of PA gear).  But the Yamaha dealer that sold me my P-80 had some little powered speakers that came with a little subwoofer and sounded great.  (the subwoofer is a third speaker specifically fot the bass).I think the whole set was under $100.

I don't know if these guys have the best prices, but here's the dealer I used, and the guy that runs the place, Dave, will know what they are... he was pretty enthusiastic about them.
https://www.emusicgear.com/    phone number on the site.