We got tired of our clients saying "this doesn't sound like it did in the mix room"
Over 20 years ago I helped a mixing engineer friend find better nearfield monitors for his two studios. These rooms were professionally designed, heavily treated and fully measured by an acoustical consultant, but the nearfield monitors his acoustician recommended did not sound great. Clients like me -- and my clients -- complained because the sound back at the client table was completely different than the sound closer to the mixing desk. So he got in 5 different brands of professional monitors to try out. Just for grins, I brought in some high-end, 2-way speakers that I reviewed favorably for an audiophile journal ($4500/pair list).
Two important things. 1) The Genelecs were the only monitors that came close to sounding as good as the high-end speakers when listening in the nearfield and centered. 2) The high-end speakers only sounded really great when the listener was in the sweat spot; the Genelecs sounded much more consistent no matter where we sat -- off axis or farther back at the client table. The Genelecs came closest to curing the problem of clients hearing a different mix than the mixing engineer. I assume that the off-axis response and power response into the room made a difference. This experience made me a believer in Genelec.
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