But @yoyoyaya is there any (lower priced) studio monitor that puts the PA energy into music playback? They seem tangential to the goals here.
Seems OP is hoping to save money and get a more live experience but the trouble might come from studio-recorded (mastered) music lacking the dynamics of live music. After all, the idea to use PA in home would probably be based on how good it sounds with live music, right?
Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application!
Hi guys,
I am a bit inspired to explore/trial usage of a pair of PA speakers at home after i attended a live event recently.
I looked at some Yamaha PA models and zoomed in on one that isn't too huge/heavy, relatively easy to move around perhaps.
Are there any audiophiles here who had relative satisfaction trying such speakers at home? I am also thinking that this may not be a great idea, but, just curious at the moment.
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In my opinion the Daniel Hertz M1 speaker is a copy of the JBL 4345 studio monitor. See link below: Mike https://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/specs/pro-speakers/1981-4345.htm |
@benanders. You touch on an important point, but particularly with regard to electric music. The use of compression in recording limits dynamic range relative to what you'd hear from a live band. In addition, not always, but a lot of the time, there are many more instrument tracks on a studio recording than a band will reproduce in a live setting. That leaves more dynamic space for each instrument being played live and makes it more of a visceral experience. As regards lower priced studio monitors - the answer is no. Price for price, the equivalent studio monitor to an affordable PA speaker will almost always be a two way desktop system with a bass-mid unit around six inches. Good properly full range studio monitors don't come cheap. |
I have used a fair amount of studio monitors at home over the years, nearfield and midfield (Neumann, Yamaha, Genelec, etc). They have never come anywhere close to what I recently experienced on this PA rig man. Some tracks from ’Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears’ were playing at this venue, an album I know all too well and have played many a time in my current high end rigs. It is a studio mastered album, of course, which would have gone through its fair share of "compression", as you all have noted above. But, what I heard at this venue was just visceral, raw and mind boggling. It felt like Ozzy and Zakk Wylde were piercing through the core of ya..."Moving air" (as Levinson notes in his video), is an understatement...
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@deep_333 - good points of clarification. Thank you. If you can replicate those factors (speakers x room x extras) and the rest of the playback chain in your home, then maybe the answer is yes. If you cannot, then you’re wanting something different than what your OP queries. If the real question is “How do I make music playback in my home like music playback I heard in a PA-equipped venue?” then you already know the ingredients. If you can’t change the room to match, though, then you might have to think about speaker x room parameters (among other things) much more extensively. I took a less conventional approach in speakers x room based on similar interests to what you describe, and think it worked out. But I also don’t use PA kit and I don’t live in a studs/drywall residence, so YMMV 😅 |
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