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Shaggy2039
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In my opinion, this is an important distinction because if you're referring to choosing nearfield monitors and room correction simply for listening, then it's a totally different goal than what many users in Gearspace are looking at this gear for. We're looking for the best solution for the mix to translate. Honestly, if I were looking at this stuff only for listening purposes I'd probably choose a more pleasing (less brutal) speaker and skip the room correction altogether. The room correction often times makes the speaker sound "worse" in some ways because it's more flat. You're now getting more of that shrill 3-4khz area boosted and some of the more pleasing upper 10khz and lower 40-50hz room bump removed. It has limited effect depending on where you are in the room. The curve changes if you're out of the correction zone unless you're doing multiple measurements and having it averaged - but then this method would mean your mix position would be less accurate.....
When you go on Trinnov's website, they have basically two sides of their product line - one dedicated to home theater set ups and the other towards professional mixing applications. What we are talking about here is using Trinnov for the latter.
I don't disagree about the distinction you make. Listening and mixing are different tasks.
However, this being a thread about near fields, I would say that the moving around part doesn't really apply. I listen at a very specific position, so I correct just for that.
I also think that, provided one finds the correct target curve, listening and mixing speaker responses can be virtually the same, or come very close at least. An extra EQ to engage/disengage depending on the situation could bridge that gap, but again, I'm not that sure that gap will be much at all.