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by JohnBooty
1836 days ago
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Studio monitors and HiFi equipment seem like different categories and use cases to me. .
Studio monitors can potentially be great hifi speakers, though generally not the other way around. To get a good sound from studio monitors you need to be positioned well.
Modern studio monitors are often quite the literal opposite of this!Thanks to the waveguide on the JBL 3-series and 7-series monitors, you get nearly perfectly constant sound over an unbelievably wide 120-degree swath. You won't find anything approaching this in the consumer hi-fi market segment. This is nearly as true for Genelec studio monitors as well. Check the dispersion graphs (the rainbow colored ones) for these models: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/j... https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/j... https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/g... Which makes sense given the use case: you might have a few people sitting at the mixing desk and you'd like them to be hearing the same thing. HiFi speakers should fill the room
Depending on the size of the room, studio monitors may or may not be able to fulfill this duty well. It does definitely tend to be the achilles heel when you try and use studio monitors for hifi. I've got JBL 306's crossed over to a pair of compact 12" subs in my fairly small music room and and they definitely get way louder than I want or need them too. |
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