Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"?

@lonemountain , the answer to your question of who, is "most audiophiles", as most audiophiles are ruled by beliefs, not fundamental understanding.

@thespeakerdude 

You know lots of audiophiles, do you?

@kenjit Does make some good points and so does @fair and of course @lonemountain is a real acoustic engineer, great conversation.

I have a unique view on this question because I have a professional mixing studio in the same room as my audiophile system. I have worked hard to be able to switch from one system to another (using Dante) to test the mix in one system and then the other. I use the fairly new Genelec "The Ones" monitors (best choice I’ve ever made for monitors) in Dolby Atmos configuration for the professional mixing studio then my audiophile system is 90 degrees from that system in the same room. Now that I’ve tuned my professional system in a bit more it is nice to listen to but my audiophile system is totally different. This creates an interesting conflict.

The professional system has disturbing pinpoint imaging the speakers are point source and internally powered I’m still not used to the transients and the imaging it is another world. The audiophile system is like a steak with lots of wonderful spices on it, there is no one on this forum of experienced listeners who would rather listen to the same music or movie on the professional system rather than the audiophile system that’s because it sounds more magical and entertaining. The professional system is exactly how I wanted it to sound great with very well recorded music and shows the warts with music and movie that aren’t done as well this is exactly what a studio system should show. The Genelec speakers are very sophisticated for the ultimate reason to show you exactly what you have, audiophile system are designed to sound good.

Professional studios need accurate sound not good sound, what is accurate? I’ve said this in other notes but accurate sound is when you talk with Anthony Hopkins, Tom Cruse, and Jack Nicholson on the set then record their voices while acting and have the producers smile because their voices sound the same in dailies. 

@donavabdear ,

I would like to hear your opinion in a year or two once you are more acclimated to your studio system. I find it harder and harder to go back to less "accurate" systems. There could even be generational aspects at work. Younger people don’t find film as "romantic" as us old farts do. They find it unnatural.

Have you taken a room response on both systems and tried adjusting the studio system to match the audiophile system? I play around with curves depending on the music and mood.

It sounds like tour studio system and audiophile system should have similar reflections or did I interpret wrong?

@thespeakerdude I did do some room acoustic programs with both systems, I moved my Lyngdorf 60.2 to be used with the pro system so I could use "Room Perfect", I had to use a program called DADman to allow me to monitor Atmos through the Lyngdorf with the room adjustments and also monitor cleanly through ProTools DigiLink directly with no room correction. It didn’t really make a big difference I have a good room high ceilings and no parallel walls, (that is key). The pro system keeps surprising me all the time when I listen to music especially. The audiophile system has much more expensive speakers and amps and sounds much warmer way way more bass and a much larger sweet spot. The audiophile system has 16 amps the pro system uses all active speakers the dynamics and transients of the pro system are off the charts but then again I don’t listen very loud ever, that’s why I got out of live sound 35 years ago and got into movie sound. I have about 12k watts of power on my audiophile system and only ⅓ of that on the pro system but they are active speakers and very efficient, I think the sub is only 800W where the audiophile subs are each about 2000W or so 3000W peak. I much prefer the audiophile system but now having both system in the same room It makes it very hard to mix because there are 2 very different sounds. I don’t want to mix thinking about my audiophile speakers I have to put on a different had as they say.