"Pro Audio Monitors" are all crap. Use these instead.

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As usual, my title is on the provocative side. There are a couple of speakers on the market labeled as pro audio monitors that are good, but they are few and far between. As I discussed in my previous video (part 1 of the pro audio monitor lie), almost all of the speakers on the market are small and have either ports or passive radiators in them to hype up the bass using resonances to enable them to produce a wider range of frequencies than would otherwise be possible from their size using a sealed cabinet. Of course this is not forbidden. Manufacturers are allowed to make such speakers and you are allowed to buy them. But ported small speakers have a big trade off... time domain accuracy and distortion. Calling inaccurate small speakers with resonant ports "pro audio monitors" seems misleading to me. In this video I continue the theme I started in my first video and discuss acoustics, bust the small room small speaker myth and explain why NS10s and auratone 5Cs are small but not subject to my criticism. In fact, I RECOMMEND them for small or otherwise bad sounding rooms where headphones are less desirable.