Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible.

As a retired recording engineer, I can tell you first hand that studio and home setups are as different as chalk and cheese.

In the studio, we don't listen to music. We listen to instruments, voices and mixes.

B I G  difference.

The usage is different, but acoustics does not magically change, and goals acoustically need to be similar.

Control room acoustics are nothing like home.

Walls, floors, trapping, etc. vary massively from studio to studio.

Large control rooms may have 15 to 30 x 3 to 5 feet of glass, often with an angle or two. Ceilings may be 12 feet or higher. There are often racks of equipment with metal face plates behind and/or to the side of the engineers position [EP]. There is a large flat, metal sheet extending 3 to 6 feet either side of the EP. There is a flat meter bridge extending the same distance about 3 feet in front of the EP.

Add in musicians, artists, A&R & record co. execs and it's not at all similar.

Monitors require several multiples the power at 3-4m as at 1m away markedly increasing distortion. Reflections from the back of the console markedly change the tonal balance.

Engineers have dozens of tools to master. Near field monitors are but one.

Did you read the article?

Yes. Any many similar over the years.

It was talking about setting up a mixing studio.

" Start by facing the short wall of your room" is a non-starter. Many ’mixing studios’ I worked in and my company wired had the desk facing the long wall.

SOP for an engineer who works in rooms from a London scoring stage to some artist’s ’mix room’ is to take your speakers (& amps, cables, level control for the truly twisted) along with some music you know and set up your speakers at the best location for that room.

The article is a crock for kiddies with a laptop.