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Nearfield monitors that you would want to use at home do something very different from a live PA monitor.
Nearfield monitors have 2 very important features for home use:
1. Extremely flat response
This basically means they deliver the sound that your soundcard puts out as unaltered as it can be, so you cleary hear any fault in mixing and EQing and overall sound quality. This is also why you can use the same monitors (if they are good) for production purposes.
2. Near Field Projection
Aka you should sit/stand in a perfect triangle with those 2 speakers, where your ears are level with the top half of the speaker. At this point the sound reproduction will be almost perfect. They are made to project sound exactly in this “corridor”.
Now of course theoretical you could connect one of those to your booth output at a gig, but it will not really work.
Why?
Well first those speakers are not meant to compete with PA level volumes. The volume of the club PA will simply boost the monitor away. Secondly the sound projection will be wrong. You will be not in the right distance and not be standing still. You will want to hear the sound anywhere in the booth area.
That is what PA monitors do well. Their sound reproduction is not as flat as studio monitors, but they sound OK and they are meant to compete with a PA system (hence their name). Their angle of projection is a lot wider and a lot more air is moved to do it.
So what are my usual suspects for this?
Well for home use monitors the best bang for the buck are the awesome KRK Rockit 6s. They are great value for money and can hold their own against speakers double the price.
As for PA monitors I used Yamaha, QSC and HK audio to great success and you can easily use any of them. However do note that most clubs will already have booth monitors, so I actually do not have the need to bring one in 99% of the cases.
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