Australian monitor speakers are designed to offer a flat frequency response. It facilitates the production of an audio signal that is reproduced faithfully. This keeps the budgetary constraints of the speaker intact. The monitor design focus avoids artificially boosting bass, treble, or other frequencies. This makes the speaker sound good and avoids resonances from the speaker and the cabinet.
Producers need to hear clearly what they are mixing without the speakers adding colour to it. Thus, they often keep a lookout for PA speakers for sale in Sydney. Home and project studio enthusiasts prefer bookshelf sized monitors and sit relatively closer to the user. This minimizes the influence of the sound from the room and creates a more direct sound from the speaker that is heard.
Difference Between Monitor and Home Stereo Speakers
Pop music is ideally played back on home stereo systems. However, recording professionals prefer dedicated monitor speakers for their studio work.
Monitor speakers, also known as studio monitors, are active or powered speakers – meaning a power amplifier is an in-built unit of the product. Hence, consumers need to connect it to a line source with volume control, i.e, a dedicated monitor controller, or an audio interface.
Active speakers possess a few advantages:
They usually contain several power amplifiers. The woofer, the tweeter, and the mid-range speaker (available in some products) each get their amplifiers. This results in a punchier and more accurate dynamic response.
Having dedicated power amplifiers for each speaker makes it easier to build top quality crossovers.
Placement of Speakers
Enthusiasts are often recommended to form an equilateral triangle between the speakers and the enthusiasts’ heads while the high-frequency drivers are kept approximately at ear height, directly facing the hearer. This is important as high-frequencies being directional, the hearer doesn’t hear the true level otherwise.
Speakers shouldn’t be placed hard-up against the wall. There should be a gap of at least five centimeters between the wall and the speaker. The front panel should ideally be placed within one meter from the wall. Such placement minimizes how frequency phase cancellations as bass frequencies reflect off the rear wall and mix with the direct speaker output.