Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"?

Every speaker in existence has been tuned by the designer. Just like a piano needs to be tuned a speaker needs to be tuned also. What this involves is trying out different crossover topologies. You might do a fourth order or a 2nd order. You might aim for a flat response or a U shaped curve. The possibilities are endless.

Diferent values of capacitors and inductors are then tried to fine tune the sound even more. This is not something that can be measured or calculated. It has to be done by ear until the correct values are found.

The trouble is of course, the sound you get from a speaker depends on the room its placed in and the listeners hearing response. The yamaha ns10s are tuned with a peak in the mids and ZERO bass so sound horrific. Despite this they are regarded as reference speakers by studio professionals. This means the studio Pros dont understand what good sound is. Why would anybody bother using such cheap monitors as a reference? It is bizarre. Audiophile speakers are designed to sound good by people that care about good sound. Studio monitors are designed to sound bad so that mix engineers are forced to mix their recordings to sound as good as it can through these bad speakers. The theory is that these recordings will then sound good on everything. It is a bunch of hogwash and BS.

Most studio monitors are rubbish for enjoyment. Both audiophiles and studio Pros agree on that at least. There are some speakers such as B&W nautilus that are marketed as both audiophile and studio speakers hence they are used by both sides of the market.

Again....faulty premises.

Kenjit

NO.   A Designer knows what he wants before he ever puts pen to paper.  He doesn't need to try caps in crossover, he knows what values equal a given result.  You really believe speakers are designed in a hunt and peck fashion?  A designer may adjust a few things if they don't work precisely the way he thought, but there is no "tuning like a piano".  The only way this trial and error method of creating something happens is if the builder/designer is completely untrained and is fishing for some combo that "works" by ear.  This is NOT how modern speakers are designed - not in this day and age of klippel and CAD.  

Studio people work for the music creators.  I can assure you, because I know them and visit them/talk to them, the engineers that work for people like Tom Petty or Pink Floyd spend many many hours getting the sound just right, so the artist is happy.  It must sound amazing or they are fired.  Unless you want to make some ill founded argument the artist doesn't know what he or she wants, or some other equally inane argument that the artist wants their mix to sound bad, these engineers spend enormous time just getting the sound to be right.  You absolutely have no idea what you are talking about. Stop confusing people with this made up crap, pretending you have some special insight.  

Most studio monitors are rubbish for enjoyment. Both audiophiles and studio Pros agree on that at least

@kenjit Uh, no.  No they absolutely do not and I’ve no idea where you’d even get any such data to support this except in your own mind.  I had the pleasure of meeting/speaking at length with one of ATC’s top engineers and nowhere in that conversation did he say their speakers were rubbish for enjoyment, and the fact that their speakers are revered globally as both studio and home monitors would greatly refute your misguided contention.

There are some speakers such as B&W nautilus that are marketed as both audiophile and studio speakers hence they are used by both sides of the market.

But, if as you maintain studio monitors are designed to be flat and don’t sound good then B&W speakers must be bad studio monitors.  Same with ATC, PMC, etc.  Can’t have your argument both ways.

As usual, once kenjit’s “theories” are examined at all they devolve into unsupported circular logic that, much like toilet water, circles the bowl and eventually just ends up in the sewer where it belongs.  But, wait to hear him double down on his garbage with further unsupported circular logic.  Thus why kenjit is so beloved here.  Ugh. 

Has anyone ever seen kenjit and MC st the same time?