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Originally Posted by Ayn Marx
Try telling that to Bowers & Wilkins.
I will however grant you one thing, some monitors do exaggerate recording defects. The point is they don’t have to.
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Keeping it simple, people should just consider: what are studio monitors made for? Is it for music enjoyment? No. It is for music production. This includes hearing and finding errors.
Anything that masks faults will make monitors worse suited for their purpose. The same isn't true for speakers made for enjoying music. Hence, there are certain things one can conceivably do with speakers that might increase the general listening experience that one could / should
not do on studio monitors.
Hence, my general advice to not buy studio monitors unless you're going to use them for their intended purpose, which is mixing / mastering. You know, consider what something is engineered for before you use it for something else.
But perhaps people could also be a little clearer on what it is they mean by good quality sound. Is it a sound that is accurately recreated or it is a sound that's enjoyable? The two isn't necessarily the same.