Near field Monitor vs. 12'' Speaker

[altinenti]

Hi! This is a pretty basic question.
For some time I've been working in my studio using a pair of Alesis Pro Venue Speakers 1201 (200W 12'' speaker with 1'' Driver). Before that I had been using some very good quality (hi end) but quite old home equipment. When I went for the Alesis a couple of years ago my idea was to be able to use them as P.A. for small venues (100 people) as well as using them as monitors in my studio.
My work is not recording but I mainly do electroacoustic music. I thought, as I liked the quality of those speakers, that it would let me be in touch with the kind of speaker that is the one usually used to reproduce my kind of electroacoustic music, even though I would be using them in my studio at lower levels. Now that I'm upgrading some equipment, I'm considering the advantages of going for a more typical near-field studio monitor (like the Mackie's HR824).
Could you explain what the advantages of this would be?. Is it really better to work with a studio monitor like this (the HR824) rather than with the bigger (and somewhat bulky I have to say) Alesis speakers I'm using? Will the quality improve? I do not usually see people in studios using these kind of speaker like I use, so that's where my question comes from. As I said I'm not working so much into a material that would be reproduced on home stereo equipment, but that would normally be reproduced through P.A.

Thanks very much for any enlightening information on this issue!!

[ghellquist]

Hmm. There is no simple answer to this.

The general idea is however that studio monitors are supposed to give you the unadorned thruth. Crap should sound like what it is. PA speakers on the other had are made to give you volume, and preferrable good sounding at that. In the end though, whatever works for you is the only thing that counts.

Gunnar

[tINY]

Decent studio monitors are going to sound a lot different thatn a small sound-on-a-stick 12+1" two way.

You won't have the coloration from the horn loading, you won't have the peaking of the woofer at 1-3kHz, you'll have better bass extension, you'll usually have more HF above 10kHz.......




-tINY

[Tomer1]

And you will probably keep your ears in better condition in the long run.

[altinenti]

OK! Many thanks for the answers!
And what do you think about the HR 824's?
I live in Argentina and it's not really a possibility to get GENELEC's

[tINY]

The HR824 is pretty decent. If you can get the KRK V6 or the better JBL's you'll probably be better off. A lot of it has to do with what type of music you are doing, wha the control room is like and what you prefer.



-tINY