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Near Field listening

Looking for suggestions and thoughts for the purchase of a pair of monitors for a small room. Associated equiptment will be a Music Reference RM10 mkll and a RM4 phono stage and a tt. I have owned the Linn Tukans and liked them fine and that is all the experience I have with monitors. I listen to a lot of Jazz and singer songwriter type music.
Thanks
rnadell
buconero117
2,311 posts
 
ProAc 1SC, which I have and enjoy near field.
ebm
9,311 posts
 
I listen in my living room not a field.
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lokie
528 posts
 
Tannoy sgm10b with mastering labs xvr
timtim
84 posts
 
You would be MUCH better off buying Professional studio monitors for true nearfield listening. They are made for this type of listening, and you can NOT ask a home speaker to be as good as a speaker made specifically for nearfield listening.
lrsky
1,118 posts
 
Sorry Timtim, I HAVE to disagree.

While in Nashville, a block from Music Row managing a store frequented by Nashville types, stars and engineers and producers...I had occassion to listen to studio monitors, and more important have many of those folks do the same.

Invariably, they'd remark that the home versions of speakers 'sounded better', and 'more lifelike', 'more realistic'.

Studio monitors I've known are not good at reproducing the input signal. I've had more than one engineer tell me...."I know they're not good, but I know what THEY sound like and I can engineer around them."
My question was always, 'Why start off with that kind of handicap.'

Good listening.

Larry
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