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Encyclopedia > Reference monitors

Studio monitors, also called reference monitors are loudspeakers specifically designed for audio production applications such as recording, film, television and radio studios. Closeup of a loudspeaker driver Wall-mounted loudspeaker. ... A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ... A movie studio is a location, room, building, or group of buildings and/or sound stages, offices and storage facilities, which may include a backlot, where movies are made. ...


Some consumer-end speakers tend to add color, tone, and loudness to make music sound better. The goal of most studio monitors is to produce a flat frequency response and a truthful representation of the source material. Sound engineers usually require accurate sound reproduction from their speakers especially during audio mixing and mastering. This enables the engineer to mix a track that will sound consistent on high-end audio, low quality radios, in a club, in a car stereo or a home stereo. Frequency response is the measure of any systems response to frequency, but is usually used in connection with electronic amplifiers and similar systems, particularly in relation to audio signals. ... Audio mixing is used in sound recording, audio editing and sound systems to balance the relative volume and frequency content of a number of sound sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... High-end audio equipment is purported by the manufacturers to be the best, regardless of what it might turn out to cost. ...


Studio monitors can be active (they include one or more internal power amplifier(s)), or passive (they need an external power amplifier). Active models are usually bi-amplified. Bi-amping is the practice of connecting two audio amplifiers to a loudspeaker unit: one to power the bass driver (woofer) and the other to power the treble driver (tweeter). ...


Prominent manufacturers of studio monitor loudspeakers include Alesis, Dynaudio Acoustics, Fostex, Genelec, JBL, KRK Systems, M-Audio, Tannoy and Yamaha. Alesis is a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments based in Cumberland, Rhode Island. ... Dynaudio is a Danish loudspeaker maker, founded in 1977. ... Fostex is a Japanese manufacturer of loudspeakers and professional audio equipment. ... Genelec, founded in 1978 and based in Iisalmi, Finland, is a manufacturer of active loudspeaker systems especially for recording, mixing and mastering studios but also for home applications. ... JBL or JBL Professional is an American audio manufacturer founded by James Bullough Lansing in 1946 and is now part of Harman International Industries, who also owns audio manufacturer Harman Kardon and Infinity. ... M-Audio logo M-Audio (formerly Midiman), a business unit of Avid Technology, is a manufacturer of a variety of digital audio workstation interfaces, keyboard MIDI controllers, condenser microphones, and studio monitors, among other products. ... Tannoy Ltd is a British manufacturer of loudspeakers and public-address (PA) systems. ... The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社; TYO: 7951 ) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. ...


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Reference Monitors - Good References (4639 words)
Curiously, because close-field reference monitors have become increasingly accurate during the course of time, the original rationale for using them — to generate a good indication of how mixes will translate to low-cost car and home-stereo speakers — has waned.
Distortion refers to undesirable components of a signal, which is to say, anything added to the signal that was not there in the first place.
In a discrete monitor with a flat-face enclosure, the woofer voice coil is naturally set back further than the tweeter voice coil because of the extra depth of the cone in relation to the dome.
Reference monitor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (158 words)
In operating systems architecture, a reference monitor is a tamperproof, always-used, and small enough to be fully-tested and analyzed module that controls all software access to data objects or devices.
For example, Windows 3.x and 9.x operating systems were not built with a reference monitor, whereas the Windows NT line, which also includes Windows 2000 and Windows XP, was designed with an entirely different architecture and does contain one.
The Reference Monitor concept was introduced in the Computer Security Technology Planning Study (Oct, 1972) by James Anderson and Co.
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