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Studio vs high end

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In Reply to: RE: Back off Klaus... posted by mkuller on January 28, 2008 at 09:29:53

So what you are saying is that accurate studio monitors are actually not poviding a true image of real live music but inaccurate high end speakers do? What then are studio engineers doing all day long? Produce inaccurate recordings which the high end systems have to get back on track by compensating for all those errors made during production of the record?

Many audiophiles have, or at least try to duplicate, the conditions found in studio control rooms, i.e. low reverb time, reflection free zone, room mode treatment. If you assume that the studio engineer does his best to produce a recording that comes close to the real thing, using his accurate monitors, the audiophile who uses high end speakers which most of the time are blatantly inaccurate is screwing things up with great success.

And what is more, Floyd Toole has found during many years of investigation that listeners actually prefer accurate loudspeakers.

Did YOU ever hear a top notch accurate studio speaker in a home (i.e. non-studio and far field) to say that they are not capable to deliver the real thing?

Klaus

Follow Ups:

RE: Studio vs high end - morricab 02:56:16 01/30/08 (0)
RE: Studio vs high end - morricab 02:52:40 01/30/08 (6)
- RE: Studio vs high end - KlausR. 05:51:55 01/30/08 (5)
  - RE: Studio vs high end - morricab 04:54:53 01/31/08 (4)
    - Sean Olive - KlausR. 08:08:27 01/31/08 (3)
      - What VMPS says about CD - morricab 02:16:33 02/01/08 (0)
      - Here is what Geddes says: - morricab 02:11:01 02/01/08 (1)
        
        RE: gives a more ideal radiation pattern - KlausR. 09:51:26 02/01/08 (0)
Studio monitors... - mkuller 10:48:55 01/29/08 (10)
- I'll have to disagree - E-Stat 06:09:24 01/30/08 (4)
  - Back in the late '70's... - mkuller 09:47:18 01/30/08 (3)
    - Differences - E-Stat 10:56:35 01/30/08 (2)
      - Minimizing room effects - KlausR. 01:48:46 01/31/08 (1)
        
        Doesn't the link you provided above... - robert young 04:35:37 01/31/08 (0)
- So you'd call this small? - KlausR. 03:00:31 01/30/08 (4)
  - RE: So you'd call this small? - morricab 05:04:42 01/31/08 (0)
  - There are exceptions to every rule...(nt) - mkuller 09:56:42 01/30/08 (1)
    - These are not exceptions! - KlausR. 04:45:57 01/31/08 (0)
  - Why? - E-Stat 06:02:43 01/30/08 (0)
RE: Studio vs high end - Analog Scott 09:27:07 01/29/08 (0)

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