I have Paradigm Monitor 9 v4.0 “audiophile” speakers (whatever that means).
Would it be suitable to use them as studio monitors? Or are speakers like these generally to colored?
I don’t have a treated room, so studio monitors would anyway never have a flat curve in my listening space.
Sure, just don’t forget to check your tracks out with the car’s stereo.
I would think as long as you’ve got some form of brickwall limiter at the end of your signal chain these would work fine. Some amps and pre-amps will have an overload protection circuit, I found out the hard way when cranking the AH resonance on some old tower speakers!
I was under the impression audiophile gear was colored. Which is why the two don’t regularly mix.
But any speakers are better than no speakers. Plus those are good speakers.
Best advice ever.
You can always tell which of my tracks never got tested in the car before release. They’re the tracks that sound like shit.
Aren’t you the one with no perm?
well, many of them can.
i myself use speakers of this kind at home.
but i realize that they are sufficient only for draft mixing, since they are imprecise, despite the fact that they deliver very detailed sound.
so, after making draft mix, i buy some studio time to check and adjust things on proper monitors (that i can’t afford at home anyway).
working this way, my speakers do excellent job: time saved, money saved.
Depends of the philosophy of the brand. I don’t know these Paradigm monitors. But for example how masterful the band Yello sounds. Boris Blank is using PSI Audio monitors that are also originated from audiophile systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjgrRL9gIw
Another example is from Kii audio and quite high end https://www.kiiaudio.com
They are, but as I understand you should be moving on flat monitors. But also should test on audiophile, shit speakers and whatever you can.
But…the best shit I ever did was before I could afford nice monitors. I was using some…
It goes against what I’ve read. On those $10 specials that are bass challenged, I didn’t overload bass. While on the monitors that reveal how much bass I allow thru, I go bass crazy 
Not for long pal.
I just looked at these Paradigm Monitor 9 v4.0 and one thing is for sure that these are not usable for near field monitoring.
Don’t forget to RTFM.
If you know how they translate they can work if they’re your only option. It probably means more work testing your mixes on other systems and going back to your studio to adjust accordingly… and then back and forth like that for a while.
Many years ago I released a cd that was done entirely on “audiophile” speakers and I was very happy with the sound. It took forever though.
Speakers marketed as audiophile/ Hi-Fi are no more coloured than similar priced speakers marketed as studio monitors.
Why would someone who is interested in the high fidelity reproduction of music want an intentionally coloured speaker?
How can you intentionally colour a speaker so that it sounds “better” irrespective of the music source (e.g. Rock, Jazz, Classical, EDM etc.)?
Speaker design is always a compromise, which is particularly noticeable at the lower price range.
From my experience a pair of Genelecs and similarly priced “home audio” Dynaudios (not their studios, mind) are very different listening experiences. Studio aims to be as flat as possible whereas home aims for most enjoyable, which is very subjective.
All speaker designs aim for a flat frequency response.
The fact that your Genelecs sounded different from the Dynaudios may have nothing to do with frequency response.
Also, to accurately compare different sets of speakers you need to be listening to the same sound source, at the same volume and in the same room.
Genelec make speakers marketed as Studio monitors and speakers marketed as Hi-Fi. There is very little difference between the two, mainly the casing colour and the types of connections. The speakers audio specifications are identical.
When photographs are adjusted on ‘non calibrated’ displays and then printed. The results can be quite a way out from what were expected.(it’s still recognisable as your photograph, just less than optimal contrast. Brightness and color balance)
Audio is the same. Take above scenario and do the process enough times and you might start compensating for the displays innacuracy and getting better prints?
You could possibly get good results using your mentioned speakers but you might find yourself jumping through many hoops and many many times. Learning all the way.
You will know when you have gone as far as you can on said speakers.
I think hi fi speakers are not robust enough for that, that is one thing i noticed as obvious difference. You will demage them with filter sweeps 
Well when he breaks them, he’s kinda answered his own question.
this already happens when you put in your earbuds or a good headset, it’s the same
