Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"?


Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"?  Does that mean audiophile speakers are warm/colored and distorted?   If Studio Monitors main goal is low distortion, does that mean low distortion is not something audiophiles want?  They want what, high distortion?  "Pretty" sounding distortion?  Or find pretty sounding speakers that make bad recordings sound really good?  What is the point of searching out good recordings then?  They won't sound as intended on a highly colored distorted speaker!   

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And the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round...  Have not many of you owned enough equipment to fill an entire stereo store?  Have you not enjoyed all of it? Some pieces more than others.  Sure.  Even your first love HK 330 receiver?  

It's supposed to be fun.  I hired piano movers to help with my last, and very possibly just that, my last speakers I'll ever need.  Up stairs and to the right boys.

After setup, they all wanted  to hear them.  I did not go through some languid explanation of "they're not properly broken in yet".  We fired them up!

Four people positively got rowdy.....and giddy.  Said they had never heard such things.  Kept rotating in and out of the listening chair.  Kept commenting about the dynamics, the realism.  Are they audiophiles?  Nope.  But they were that afternoon. The pure joy of surprise of how good something could sound and move them!

The music server was rollin' for 1 hour while we moved through War, blues, Van Morrison, Marcus Miller.  And then they all left with big smiles and tip money.  

That was a good afternoon.

 

 

from what I read, real audiophiles want "neutral" from the speakers. It's the source and the amp that provide "coloring"

But I've read it HERE in audiogon, so there you go   

There is no "tuning" of loudspeakers in any factory I have ever seen or been aware of.  There is some engineering that happens long before the speaker is built, and the choices the design engineer makes could possibly be considered "tuning"- how wide a bandwidth, what driver elements, ported or sealed box, etc. But certainly not in an adjustable way other than some small crossover tweaks are possible after assembly.   So this notion a company "tunes" for a market is BS.  Especially the idea audiophile speakers have a specific curve or studio monitors have a curve or this goofy idea of a BBC dip.   This is all made up crap people use to explain things they don't understand or a marketing person uses to promote a brand.