On 24/07/2017 10:34, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Andrew wrote:
Other than that, what is the difference between one
and a 'normal' speaker.

Just the name.

It's basically a US term. It wasn't used for speakers when I started my
career in broadcast. A monitor produced pictures. ;-)

Just about any type of speaker has been used as a so called monitor at one
time or another.

One term was 'average quality monitor'. That would be used to give a rough
idea of what people heard at home - as opposed to the speakers in pro use.
Aurotone being one example - just a single driver in a small box.

You'd hope that any speaker called a monitor would have tight quality
control - so that all of the same make and model sounded the same.

But then in a recording studio they may be custom made units anyway - just
for that studio.


On the subject of speakers - and at the risk of hijacking things [sorry] - I
have a pair of 15" Gauss speakers. circa 1978 ish that I'd forgotten about
until crawling around in the loft the other day. No idea at this point whether
they still work of not - they did when stored - the point is, are they worth
hanging on to?

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David Kennedy

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