ABSTRACT
The monitor systems of a recording studio consist of the entire electrical, electro-mechanico-acoustic, and acoustical signal path from the monitor circuits of the mixing console to the ear of the listener. Ideally, the main control room monitoring system in any studio should be of high resolution, full audio bandwidth, low distortion and should be able to provide sufficient sound pressure level at the mixing position for all forms of music recording likely to be undertaken in the studio. Many recording systems now use entirely digital signal-chains from the microphone through to self-powered loudspeakers systems, but an analogue monitor system really begins with either the circuitry of the monitor section of a mixing console, or the circuitry of a separate monitor controller connected to a digital recording/mixing system. There can be no doubt that power amplifiers can sound noticeably different from one another. Amplifier distortion figures are usually quoted in relation to maximum output power prior to onset of gross distortion.
