Home audio or pro audio?

This is how Benchmark positions their pro gear for the home, I don't think the goals are different at all:

BRING THE STUDIO INTO YOUR LIVING ROOM

When Benchmark's professional converters are used in hi-fi applications, studio-quality sound can be enjoyed in a home environment. Enjoy pure music without any coloration from the electronics. Hear the music exactly the way it was heard in the studio, and exactly the way the artists intended.

Discover the natural, uncolored, analog sound of Benchmark converters.

Pro gear mixes nicely with home, and no pun intended. ;)

I have been pleased using some components made by "pro" manufacturers.

My Manley Steelhead is a consumer product although Manley makes a lot of pro gear.

I use Bryston monoblock amps in my home theater.  They sound great and construction is bulletproof.

I have a Rane graphic equalizer that has stood the test of time.  It replaced "consumer grade" equalizers whose sliders became scratchy and inconsistent after only a year or two.

Long ago, I worked with pro audio and found it very much like home audio in a lot of cases.  We bi or tri amped everything, but never had a need for fancy power or cables.  When you’re filling a hall at a convention center, no one is going to hear the difference anyway.  Very dependent on the room, but usually incredibly large and heavy pieces and that same ugly black! 

I’m a wanna be musician. I own Focal Solo 6BE monitors and did have a Focal Sub6. They are VERY bright in addition to not having much detail. As I recall, if you fell on the impedance curve you would die from stab wounds. They do not sound at all like the kind of speakers we normally have as audio enthusiasts.  They sound dry and have no life. The Sub6 sounded muddy and does not have controls like a modern audiophile subwoofer.

There’s a person here on Agon that runs Genelics in a surroundsound system and loves them.  

So IDK?…

Bent