Topic: Studio Monitors sound horrible with Pianoteq
Hi,
so I am stuck and I don't know what to do!
I have a Kawai VPC 1 and use it with Pianoteq 6 which sounds beautiful on my $60 Sennheiser HD 202 Headphone.
I bought a pair of JBL LSR 308 Studio Monitors to play sometimes for family etc. So the monitors came, I connected them to my Macbook and the sound is HORRIBLE. Super flat like not rich at all, sounds like a bad quality mp3 when I play with Pianoteq. I connected my cheap $29 Logitech 2.1 speaker system and it sounds beautiful again (for that cheap system).
So when I play a high quality iTunes song through the JBL LSR 308 it sounds very very good, so much power and wow what a clean sound.
But pianoteq library, you cannot believe, horrible! I also own Native Instruments Alicia Keys and Galaxy Vintage D and it's exactly the same. The piano sound is sooooo bad on those monitors.
Now I don't know what it can be? Is it because I have connected the monitors directly with a cable to my Macbooks headphone output? I don't use an audio interface. Never needed it since I have no sound problems with piano libraries and also no latency problems (around 3ms). Can the sound of the piano libraries be so bad because of that?
Please help I don't know what to do, sound via iTunes perfect, sound via Pianoteq or Kontakt libraries really bad, low, no power whatsoever and not clear and crips at all :S
Thank you for your comments!