maanantai 24. heinäkuuta 2017 12.35.18 UTC+3 Dave Plowman (News) kirjoitti:
In article ,
Andrew wrote:
Other than that, what is the difference between one
and a 'normal' speaker.


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

Ahem. Both Tannoy and Lockwood who built speakers with Tannoy dual/concentric elements for studio use, were using the term "monitor" in the very early 60's.



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.

Auratone was very much in pro use. Your 'average quality monitor' is probably a broadcast term. Music studios referred to them as "nearfield monitors (or Little 'Uns:-). They were mounted on the top of the console either side of the meter bridge and goniometer. Our Neve desks had a switch marked "Main" and "Nearfield" on the monitor panel. Other desks had simply Mon1 or Mon2

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.

They did. Phil mentioned that, as one of JBLs strengths. We had dozens of Tannoy monitors (Lancaster, Canterbury, York,) at Decca, plus several pairs of Lockwood Major, and some large JBLs. All were pairs with adjacent serial numbers.

Funny how large firms, such as the BBC had their own terms for things. There was an STC microphone known within the Beeb as "apple and biscuit". Everywhere else it was called "Ball and Biscuit"

Iain

Iain