Speakers for the home should make your music sound beautiful, so you can enjoy it. Studio monitors should make your music sound 'bad' by over-exposing the flaws in the track, so you can fix them. Therefore, hifi speakers and studio monitors should sound vastly different, right?
Not really.
If you work in a studio, your monitor is your most important tool. A good monitor lets you hear what's on the recording. Itโs ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ. You don't want it to add its own sound signature, you don't want it to leave out anything, you don't want to have to second-guess your decisions. You want a monitor that's accurate, one that allows you to trust what you hear. And in the end, when you're done with your track, you want it to sound amazing in your studio and know that it translates well!
In your home you want your music to simply sound great. If you have a system thatโs as accurate as the monitors that were used for the recording, the sound you hear will be very much like the sound the engineers heard in the studio. If your speakers are not accurate and add a significant amount of their own flavor, that flavor will make its presence known with every track you play. Itโs like ketchup with every dish.
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Then should hifi systems and studio monitoring systems always sound the same? Actually, people do have differences in tastes, but differences are not as big as people think. Well-produced tracks played on an accurate system sound great to everybody. You may want to add a small pinch of salt to taste - thatโs what tone controls are for - but please stay away from the ketchup.