I used the Edifier MR4 for 6 months | My thoughts

Monitor speaker is designed to produce as flat as possible frequency, they purposely avoid any character or color. And ofc flat speaker wont fit your home entertainment needs, its like watching ungraded film, its flat its washed out, its dull, it lack of depth and contrast. Most of you home speaker is tuned to have kinda vshape response, sooo yeah.

Abt the volume issue, its only happens when you put your source input in the max volume. Turn your input source volume a little bit, its will give you more control over your speaker since you got more headroom to adjust your volume knob.

Mr4 or presonus eris e3.5? I don't know which to get.

Thanks for the detailed review

I have a specific use case question, can you have both the trs and rca inputs connected to different sources and will it switch between the 2 depending on what is feeding info to the speakers. For example ( tv plugged into rca, and pc plugged into trs ) and whichever one may be on and sending audio, will come thru the speaker at that time ? This is a solution for me being able to use one pair of speakers for either my pc or tv whichever may be on and running.

Stands you def need stands and heavy ones with lead shot. I disagree with the people below. The BBC LS35A is a studio monitor however it has also won the hearts of audiophiles across the world. With careful partnering and position I've heard the Edifier can be great. A good set of stands will help however these probably will be twice as much as the speakers if not more!!!

Thanks for sharing your experience. Listening is like wine tasting, something very personal that IMHO has nothing to do with tech specs and measurements (meaning: except to avoid real garbage products or with subtleties perceived only by people with really good senses). I'm actually searching for a new set of small compact speakers to go with my desktop computer. At first, listening to DSAUDIO comparisons, MR4 seemed all right to me as an all-rounder (music, movies, gaming) with it's rather clean and neutral sound. But somehow I feel like - considering long term use - I'd better like something sounding more "alive" and warmer, having more "presence". The problem for me is that too many compact speakers are tuned to deliver more bass than they physically can and that's at the cost of the rest (like muffled mids ruining voices) and that's just why I thought of monitoring speakers to go with the PC. But - speaking for myself, off course - in any case I would NEVER use monitoring speakers with a (living room) main stereo set and especially not if listening to vinyles. And I'm no audiophile and have bad hearing. Left ear busted since a 80's Deep Purple concert, don't go to a 3000 places concert room when stadion stage monitors are used... LoL.

Don't get discouraged by this......let us join in your audio journey. Your going to get much better sound with small bookshelf speakers combined with a subwoofer for the lower frequencies or larger floor standing speakers like us old school guys from the 80's. Don't give up, keep the videos going and share your journey, don't feel unappreciated, part of the trip is in the experience!

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does your turntable have a built-in preamp?

Thanks for the review! Curious: what are you filming on? Phone or dedicated camera?

Audiophile buying a studio monitor for music pleasure.
Studio monitors are used by producers rather than listener of the music.

I was very interested in these monitors, but the digital volume control ruins everything. Thanks for pointing that out and making this video !

Who uses the volume knob for controlling loudness? Use your tv remote, computer, receiver or any other media playback device to control that. Also the volume knob is a digital one, so you can not rotate them continuously like your phone volume it always changes in steps.

Thank you for this review! This is what we need, an aged review not just first impressions. I would have to agree to the other person in the comment that maybe it was designed for a different purpose.

With that in mind, what would you recommend at the same price point for a great listening experience especially with vinyl records?

Thank you for doing this review. I've been looking for something like this for my desktop set up. These would be perfect for that.

The Edifier MR4 speakers are 'Studio Monitors' designed for the Studio as a reference monitor designed to deliver a flat response for music producers. They are not bookshelf speakers for hifi systems or TVs, they are 'powered' reference monitors.
The Technics SB-F1 mini vintage bookshelf speakers are unpowered 'Bookshelf speakers' which cannot be compared to Studio reference monitors simply because they are designed for a different purpose.
Your dissatisfaction with them are simply because your expectations do not match the MR4's purpose. IOW: You bought the wrong speakers.