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Originally Posted by woodworker
It's true, audiophiles are even worse than those with bike addictions.
In this area, though, you should look to what the commercial studios used when recording albums. ....
That's not me talking--it's the people who depended on sound quality for a living.
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This is NOT a very good way to go about testing speakers for home usage. It would be like saying you should only ride a time trial bike since that's what the people who make their living going fast depend on.
And in the years since the mid-70's the mantle of most widely-used nearfield studio monitors passed from the JBLs to Yamaha NS10s, which were chosen not necessarily because of their fidelity but rather because it was REALLY HARD to make something sound good on them; if your tunes sound good on the NS10s they'll sound good on everything! Also, the NS10s were and are pretty cheap.
In the last ten years for passive nearfield studio monitors the ones I see used the most are B&W 805s and Amphion One18s, and the Neumann KH310A for powered. All are very revealing (sometimes to a fault) but that's what works in professional environments.