why do people pull hifi speakers down ???

good quality hifi speakers wipe the floor with monitors of the same price level - the market is much harsher/competative and so this creates better quality at lower levels.

for eg. - do u think ATC are a monitor company? NO - they make top of the range hifi speakers that studios got onto and so with a bit of marketing decided to bring out the SCM range as monitors too
do you think tannoy reveals are specialist monitors ? NO - they are a pair of £120 bookshelf hifi speakers with a shit amp thrown in, a bit of eq and a pricetag of £400

when you buy a pair of home level monitors - chances are they have totally shite cones in them - yes u can read the blurb that comes with them that says this and that but in REAL hifi speakers the cones are made by the top companies - seas , morel , vifa etc..

you can present to me those silly little graphs on pieces of paper that claim a perfect flat frequency responce , and i can show u 100's of hifi speaker that have the same USELESS graphs - they are plots drawn in a chamber that has no reflections/standing waves using either white/pink noise or a sweeping sine wave - no one on this earth has a studio with no reflections in and no one uses pure sinwaves or white noise to create music. chances are when you put them in your room you will have a huge hump at the bass end and depending on how close you are and how thick your carpet/curtains are , a rather steep rolloff at the top end.

the case of buying monitors so they sound good on more systems - how many top studios have 1 set of monitors??? they usually have 3 pairs - the main monitors in the walls for full frequency monitoring , a midfield pair for balancing the general mix and a pair of nearfields for accurate treble and midrange monitoring - so in effect - 1 set of monitors, no matter how good u think they are will not produce perfect mixes on every system - the only way to do that is by listening to tracks you know and finding out what pair of monitors fit in with your definition of what is right without resorting to EQ. If you get a pair that normal music sounds great on then if you can get your tracks to sound like the pro normal music then you are prob 80% on your way to a good mix.

this isnt a rant by the way , its just the way i see it , and im not talking about cheepo midi hifi speakers either as they should go straight in the bin ;) , im talking about general mid priced speakers to compete with your mackies, ns10's etc. etc. instead of them - why not try out a pair of Ruark/Sonus Faber/Harbeth/ B&W and throw an amp like a Naim / Arcam / Musical fidelity/ Quad etc.. i bet u will tell the difference straight away




mastering studios even use hifi speakers!!!!