Monitors

OK

I dont want to disagree with those listeners that like monitor systems. So can we sideline that discussion for another day in order not to distract from the question. Or you could start your own thread.

This is abut someone (me) who wants to avoid the monitor sound but ends up in just that situation.

I am starting to understand your original question (vaguely). I read it three times and just got more and more confused.

So you have studio monitors and you want to tweak them to produce a sound you like? Is that it?

This is how it usually becomes more productive:

you add more details such as what are those speakers, your amp, your source, room size, room treatment, preferred music, etc. audiogon members will be like bees on honey before you refresh the page.

Some studios use consumer based speakers for mixing, and certainly mastering labs do. Speakers like Yamaha NS10s sounded dreadful to my ears but became a standard used by a lot of studios...how anybody could stand these things remains a mystery to me but I get it. Standardization. JBLs in the 60s and 70s had a frequency map like a smile...all lows and highs...big Altec A7s are simply too big for most consumers so smaller furniture-like versions were made...I had a pair of A7s for many years and loved 'em but not in my house. If a system sounds good to you that's what counts, and wondering if so called "studio monitors" are somehow "special" is easily remedied by buying a pair. They might sound great...or not.

@8th-note Wrote:

I disagree with the basic idea that studio monitors are not appropriate for home use. 

Me too!

Mike

Sounds like you’re wanting a warmer sound, to me.

My experience is that an etched sound, which, to me, is difficult to describe, but I’ve experienced it before and the effect is that it left me feeling fatigued after I had listened. 

What’s your take on tubes? Wonder if a tube preamp might be the ticket?