Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"?

@lonemountain

studio monitors tend to sound accurate and analytical to most people. one of their design goals is to allow studio engineers to hear any flaws in the recording. some people like them for home use too. me personally i can take them in small doses but only with the right recordings, meaning well mastered and clean.  

home audio "audiophile" speakers are voiced to be pleasing to the listener and to avoid listening fatigue.

one way this is accomplished is by voicing to a sloped curve where the low frequencies begin at a certain output and then frequencies are gradually tapered downward by some degree, example 2db per octave, so that the response is flat, just tilted downward.

this is not done with distortion- it is done by tapering the response in the crossover design so that the output is a gradual slope. most people find some degree of elevated bass and slightly rolled of treble to be pleasing.

conversely a ruler flat and level response is found by most to be analytical.

According to discussions Ive read, Pro audio users do not want their speakers to sound good. If they sound good they are regarded as colored. They want their speakers to be accurate. As a result of this market need, the studio monitor industry was created in order to satisfy these needs. So these studio monitors are not designed by audiophiles or music lovers. They are done by engineers who have no understanding of music. They rely on measurements to guide their design along with user feedback, But since the studio pros themselves are not audiophiles, it is a case of the blind leading the blind. 

If you are a music lover, stay well away of these horrid and stupid studio monitors. Just get yourself a good speaker. Have it tuned and start enjoying your music. 

@avanti1960

conversely a ruler flat and level response is found by most to be analytical.

Its just WRONG. Dont be afraid to say it. There is no such thing as analytical. A speaker needs to reproduce the input signal. Either its right or wrong. Dont give me this hogwash about it being analytical or accurate or pleasing. I like to think in terms of is it RIGHT? or is it WRONG?

Some speaker companies like ATC or PMC dont fit the mould because they have a foot in both camps. One in the audiophile market and the other in the Pro audio market. So THEY are the ones having it both ways not me.

@kenjit But here’s where more of ur circular reasoning comes in. If you look at a comparable model in ATC’s home or pro market, the only difference is the cabinet. They don’t “tune” their speakers for either market any differently and have achieved success on both sides. Then you present some ASR measurements that are somehow are meant to besmirch ATC. When you have to invoke ASR to make your lame point and infer that somehow that overrides the exceptional commercial success ATC has had on both sides, you’ve lost dude. The market has spoken and you’re just flat-out wrong. Speakers can be tuned the same for both professional and home use and be equally successful. Period. That some “dude” you found didn’t like how the SCM2000 ASL sounds (that speaker doesn’t even exist BTW) means nothing because he’s clearly in the vast minority. I can find someone who actually agrees with you. Don’t mean that’s reality. Fact is, you have no data to back up your contention that studio speakers sound like crap, then you throw out a buncha BS to try to rescue your initially flawed and way too broad statement. Face it dude, once again you’ve been outed and most people here won’t buy the extreme statements you try to sell here just in the name of extremism and outlandish statements. Chalk up another failure on your belt.

Someone forgot to take his pills today…