Bookshelf Speakers Versus Studio Monitors
Contemporary speaker technology is vastly different from the early days of home stereo systems. In the 1960s and 70s, as home audio became increasingly high-fidelity, the component audio system rose in popularity. No longer was a consumer tied to devices made by one company, as in the console stereos of the 1950s. Turntables, amplifiers, tuners and – perhaps most significantly – speakers were now chosen on their own merits. During the same era, recording studios existed as laboratories of sound,...