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What is trully important?

So I read about all these expensive bits of gear here and I have some thoughts. In the world of large money bands and their touring where individual seats can cost well north of 5G is there any sort of restriction on equipment they can buy? I don't think so and they want fidelity. What do recording studios use for session recordings? Is the idea of true to life important and what do you use to get there? Does real life reproduction matter or is some sort of electronic pure tonal thing the most important even though you will never hear that in live venues.
  I am fascinated by the amount of money spent that the pros never spend to get results and the pros are a purely result driven group.
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mahlman OP
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"but ultimately, you are buying for pleasure and personal satisfaction. You need to know your own gut and heart first, then you will know what to buy for."
  I can certainly agree with that.
mahlman OP
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"I never understood the fascination some have with the studio monitor paradigm. Studio monitors aren't hifi speakers and the intent of their design is to be very flat and analytical. Personally, I'm more interested in what a recording is mastered on"
  OK what exactly do you mean by flat and analytical? If you mean speakers that do not color the music but give faithful replay of what is being done I want flat and analytical. I can add spice to the sound with all kinds of electronics but the speaker needs to be like I am there. Studio monitors I have heard did that and those guys doing the mastering listen to what they have done on them. I never see exotic or designer named anything with bands and sound pros where they earn a living and I want to hear that same sound. So why not use what they use?
mahlman OP
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"I prefer a speaker that reconstructs a reasonable facsimile of a performance rather than deconstruct it."
  Precisely my goal. And then add to it a trip through Audacity to remove some of that "mastering" done for poor speakers or earbuds and restore it to what it was when it first started or as close as can be reconstructed to be so. I want a front row seat not some tonally pure interpretation of what someone thinks I SHOULD be listening to.  
mahlman OP
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Perhaps I have an unusual idea of what most studios use. I have to admit my perception is based on speakers I have sold recording engineers and studio owners around Nashville and not based on facility research. They bought five of the nine Klipsch KPT-456 sets I had for sale.
 Yeah you may be right about the SLV side of things as the gear I get that has been in their tender hands is often seriously abused. The engineers and studio people have been another story though.
 I have gravitated more and more to classical especially stringed instruments as a test of fidelity and of course enjoyment.
  One of the great things about better pro gear is that they are more room environment neutral and have the ability to overwhelm a bad acoustic environment over typical homeowner speakers. Plus the "sweet spot" is far larger. IF you can find them they are also often bargains because they just might not be pretty.
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