Reviews: Monitor Controller

Drawmer’s latest monitor controller puts the same impressive audio quality as their MC2.1 into a new desktop format.

UA’s updated Apollo Twin packs in more DSP power and improved audio performance.

Does TC’s latest post-production tool have anything to offer the music-making market?

What does this stylish-looking passive monitor controller offer that its competitors don’t?

If you're shelling out serious money for a monitor controller, you expect perfection — is that what the M905 offers?

SPL's Crimson combines a high‑quality interface and monitor controller into one conveniently sized box.

Very few monitor controllers deliver all the functions our Technical Editor deems essential. This one does — and at an attractive price, too.

Audient have brought their respected ASP-series preamps to the masses in the form of a new USB audio interface.

Thinking of investing in a premium monitor controller? Here’s a selection of models to consider, with links to the SOS review where available.

Meet the monitor controller for the DJ, musician or engineer on the move!

Designed to meet very specialised needs, mastering consoles can be scarily expensive. Crookwood’s modular system offers faultless sound quality at a surprisingly affordable price.

A good monitor controller is invaluable — but ‘good’ doesn’t have to mean complicated...

With the M902 already lauded as one of the best high-end headphone amps, what could Grace do to make it better?

Personal monitor mixes can be tricky to set up, particularly in large sessions. Can this modular system take the pain away?

Monitor controllers aren’t just glorified volume knobs, as this latest offering from Coleman shows...

Hugh Robjohns gets to grips with this reasonably-priced headphone amp.

The jobs done by DACS latest high-quality problem solver are essential, if not glamorous. Could the HeadMaster take charge of your studio?

This hardware-based room correction system includes an audio interface and monitor controller. Is it the answer to your acoustics nightmares, or just too good to be true?

No matter how 'in the box' you go, you still need easy, transparent control over your monitoring setup, and this little box claims to do it all for a good price.

Simple, functional and attractively priced. What more do you need from a monitor controller?