Interestingly enough, I'm playing an Alto TS310. Which IMO is offering pretty great value for money. Compared it in a direct A/B/C shootout with A Yamaha DBX10 and an RCF (not sure which exact model, but it's been the most expensive of the three), went for the Alto - not because of the price but because I liked the sound the most (fwiw, I even tried during a pretty loud rehearsal). Fwiw, earlier on I had also directly compared the TS210 against the 310.
Now, why am I saying this? Because the HR FRFRs are very likely the same kind of monitors, just rebranded and with slightly different input options.
Ok, so at one point in time I thought I could as well add something smaller to my arsenal, wanted to keep one in a rehearsal room, another one at home, too. So I checked out the HR 108 (grabbed it for a weekend at the local store).
What a surprise (really!) - after reading up a bit on the web I didn't expect too much, but I still sort of expected something kind of half-decent. But: No, just no! Exactly the same findings as
@hippietim.
I suppose there's no free lunch, and especially with monitors I always thought you'd get what you pay for, but I can safely say that with my Alto I feel like I've got more than I paid for (and it's really served me well for a whole lot of gigs) while with the HR you're burning money. Which, as said, is quite astonishing to me as they're basically very similar stuff (part of the reason might however be the mentioned pretty artifical low end hype).
Whatever, in case someone has another hot tip for a decent 8" "FRFR" but the QSCs (which I still want to check out, they're just never available locally), I'm all ears.
