Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"?

Here kenjit, pour yourself another glass

All the best,
Nonoise

“ I consider myself a great audiophile. That alone is a compelling reason to believe my assertions. Just trust me I know what I’m talking about.”

hahaha. What’s the definition of a GREAT AUDIOPHILE!? Lol. Kenjorino. It’s pretty compelling I must say. 

For a period of time my son studied audio engineering and interned at a smaller (500ish capacity) concert venue in Cleveland, Ohio.  The class was required to purchase and use the same headphones (sorry, don’t remember make/model) that measured extremely flat for their mastering projects.  They didn’t sound particularly bad, but they sounded more dull than any other explanation I can come up with.

The biggest takeaway from this is that once recordings were mastered, they sounded better through the same flat headphones, but they sounded great through my both open and closed back “audiophile” headphones.  Two different types of headphones because their uses were different, flat for engineering/mastering, and the “audiophile” ones for musical enjoyment.  Pretty simple.

Kenjit clearly has never actually been in a studio, but I have. As far back as the late 60s and as recently as this year, and I can say without hesitation that studio monitors have never been "flat." Large horns, the JBL stuff in the 70s, those terrible Yamaha NS10s...seriously...some are better sounding than others but man...I'm amazed that anybody makes a great recording, but talented engineers often do, thankfully.

Flat as pancake studio monitors. 

Another flat as pancake studio monitors

pancake monitors for studio