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Re: Objectively what is the most accurate to the disc system - Engineers!!

> Correct me if I'm wrong but B&W and PMC are two loudspeaker makers
> widely used in recording studios -- both make speakers that don;t cost
> all that much on the used market.

What have brands got to do with it? You were asking about accurate loudspeakers and I was suggesting to follow what the professionals use when they want accurate audio reproduction. If a recording studio uses a $30 000 PMC 3 way active monitor that does not mean a second hand $500 PMC 2 way passive loudspeaker will do the same job.

> Also as I've been told by countless forumers who supposedly
> "understand the graphs" any bass deficiency can be more than made up
> for by simply purchasing 1 or maybe 2 subwoofers...

I am not sure what you asking here but accurate bass in small rooms is very difficult to achieve and is dominated by the room treatment. It is not difficult to get loudspeakers to produce bass but the accuracy is difficult.

> Seems to me that recording studios use everything from the Paradigm
> Atom to Sennheiser HD 580 headphones to JBL. So it appears that the
> professional recording studios don;t necessarily hold the answer

They also buy coffee machines to use when they want coffee. I fail to see your point.

> if they did there would only be ONE loudspeaker system used in every
> recording studio in the world.

Why? Certainly there are only a few manufacturers of accurate studio monitors because the market is small but I fail to see why there should be only one.

If you own Audio Note equipment, as stated by one of the other posters in this thread, it raises the question why you might want to listen to accurate (low distortion, flat frequency response, etc...) professional type systems. They would appear to come from opposite ends of the spectrum or is this appeal?


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