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I understand all of that, but...

I think the simple answer is that it has become fashionable for manufacturers and marketeers to call small, standmount speakers "monitors" because it sounds flashy and is one word instead of two words. Looking at the classified ads over at Audiogon (or even, here at Audio Asylum) and we see that any speaker that is not a "floorstander" is called a "monitor". Most of these so-called "monitors" would never be chosen by professionals for monitoring purposes, including my VMPS and Clements "ribbon monitors" (standmounts!). The word "monitor" just slides off the tongue easier and it sounds so much cooler than "standmount speaker", "bookself speaker", or even "small speaker".


Edits: 11/18/10
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