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Of course you get good results using any decent monitor that you know well regardless of what type of music you work with.
But in my experience it's not always that all good monitors is optimal for all types of music.
If you work with acoustic music for example I find it quite easy to decide a good monitor.
Put on a great live recording and close your eyes and imagine that your in the room listening to the performance and you will hear which monitor sounds most neutral and uncoloured by finding the one that sounds closest to actually being in live.
For example dynaudio does not fare very well at all in my experience when doing that kind of test. Especially the bass does not sound very natural, but still when mixing electronic music they are both a pleasure to work with and translate well.
On the other hand speakers that sound very neutral and good for acoustic music (Circle 5's and Event 20/20 BAS spring to mind) can tend to sound a bit sluggish in their response when handling electronic music IMHO.
Like Stevil I do like Tannoys a lot though, and they seem to be able to handle any style really well.
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