When music consumers or enthusiasts listen to music they love, it is more about being a pleasurable experience that taps into the listener's subjective impression. Therefore, they tend to pick up speakers that enhance the listening experience.
When audio/music professionals listen, they do it for different reasons & with a different mindset altogether. They want to hear the plain truth that reveals imperfections, to address the extraneous noises, imperfect sounds, or wrong notes before anyone else does it.
This is where studio monitors come in to picture, they are (ideally) tuned to reproduce the music true-to-sound without adding their own sound signature & are of utmost necessity where accurate audio reproduction is crucial, specifically for professional audio production applications, such as recording studios, filmmaking, television studios, radio studios and project or home studios.
Unlike the speakers used typically at home, “sweetened” to sound more impressive, studio monitors are physically robust & designed to create a linear or flat frequency response that reveals a true picture of the audio being created or produced.
This means one can make informed choices regarding what might need changing, as the monitors exhibit accurate reproduction of the tonal qualities of the source audio.
Thus allowing one to mix & master accurately that can further work on various listening setups, such as earbuds, car speakers, boomboxes etc.
However, choosing the right studio monitor is whole another ball game, but fret not as this post attempts to divulge the quintessence of everything Studio Monitors.