Monitors

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Can we first agree that few home audiophiles use studio monitoring equipment as it does not suit the home environment.

Yes, of course.

Part of the reason that people don't use studio monitors for home listening is that nowadays, the majority of them (the monitors that is) are active and most people already have amplifiers and so are more interested in passive speakers.

Secondly, a large number of studio monitors - even some fairly full frequency ones - are designed for nearfield listening - which does not suit most home listening environments.

But off the top of my head ATC and PMC make speakers used for monitoring that are in many home systems. As a matter of fact the last speakers Gordon Holt, the founder of Stereophile paid for himself were active ATC 50A monitors and he considered them one of the few speakers that were truely accurate and Gordon along with Steve Stone had recorded many live concerts of the Boulder Symphony Orchestra so he had a real reference.

To this day I kick myself for not buying a pair of EV century 100A’s. Yes the were near field monitors. But In my cramped childhood bedroom they would have been perfect. Over thirty years ago