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In Reply to: RE: And a monitor speaker is: posted by genungo on November 18, 2010 at 01:18:23
The BBC used the LS3/5 mini-monitor for small studio work. It saves space.
These kind of speakers have been called "mini-monitors", "bookshelf speakers", "stand mounted speakers", and I don't care what you want to call them. They're small speakers.
They were first noted for their strength in imaging compared to the larger monitors in the early days. But it stuck as a "rule" as the way to achieve better imaging. Floor standers can do better, but the design needs to be aware of longer baffles vertically as well. That does not help for imaging. So those stepped boxes from B&W and Vandersteen (uncovered) look like small speakers standing on larger speakers for minimal baffle area. The small baffle idea simply was demonstrated by those early small speakers.
-Kurt
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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
"Monitors" sounds cool; Reference monitors, so much more so. It's like you're getting this super-accurate speaker thingy they can charge an arm and a leg for and it will be the "studio reference", "state of the art", right in your modest living room! And they only cost... hmmm.
Freedom is the right to discipline yourself.
…oddly most speakers called 'monitor' by 'audiophile' manufacturers are not accurate or robust enough to be used in a decent studio.
A friend of mine tried using Linns in his studio once. They lasted nearly 45 minutes before they died. Since my friend does not monitor loudly it must have been the dynamics which did them in.
In the VMPS line the "RM" designation stands for Ribbon MONITOR.ALL the RM (RM1/RM2/RM30/RM40/RM50 Bipolar array/RM v60/RM/x) are all Floorstanding Monitors.
To us, a Monitor can be "stand mount" or "floor standing" which then more clearly designate their stature, NOT their function.
Edits: 11/19/10
Although consumers and reviewers sometimes refer the the QSO 626R as a "ribbon monitor", I'm curious as to why VMPS does not. Is it because the 626R is not quite a "full range" speaker?
Actually Brian Cheney names his speakers and usually keeps it rather simple.The QSO626 is a Standmount Monitor, but I doubt Brian even considered the need to designate it as such for any reason.
As I posted in another thread, the term "monitor" describes a FUNCTON, and terms like StandMount, or FloorStander describe a FORM.
Logically it would closely track the term "video monitor" as a function, and Flat Screen, Front Projection, Rear Projection, CRT, etc would describe a form.
A speaker monitors audio content. The form is what might determine the difference in performance in that monitoring function.
Quite often terms take on a "traditional" use which may not align with the more accurate use of a term.
FYI EDIT: QSO stands for Quasi-Second Order refering to the X-over
Edits: 11/19/10
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