^^^you can use any speakers for making beats
when it comes to mixing you want to save your money and go for Studio Monitor pair that's $700 to $3000 depending on what you're trying to do..
if you really want Studio Monitor you can get any Krk Monitor for cheap ...but I wouldn't go that route
Not disagreeing at all, but something happened where "monitors" and "speakers" were somehow separated. Dynaudios, Wharfedales, Yamahas(specifically the NS10s), JBLs, and tons of other "speakers" were what you once found in big name studios as well as some audiophile's home to play records. They were called monitors if they served the purpose of monitors and speakers if you sat in front of them with a glass of wine that slowly blew off your coffee table from the pulsing sound of a maxell tape, lol.
So I feel there's a falsification in telling someone they need "monitors". Simply because these days most things that say "monitor" on the box to give a false sense of accuracy are no better than stuff that say's "bookshelf speaker" on the box for half the price because of the consumer it reaches. I'd spend $100 on a pair of "high end" computer speakers before I spent it on "budget monitors". Because that same $100 investment to a gamer means plug and play with no other wires needed, headphone jacks, good enough sound to fill a room, and a solid investment because, hey, how much is a gamer willing to pay for sound?...while $100 to a musician for "monitoring" means nothing more than "bottom of the barrel crap that's so insufficient that you'll later come back to us for better....and then again for better, but you'll stick with our brand because we'll keep convincing you for a bump in price, we give you more".
Ex. Kid gets a pair of KRK RP5s, then he needs 8s, then he needs a woofer, then he dreams of one day getting VXTs and starts saving AGAIN while another guy with a pair of 8" sonys with a matching sub running off a cheap amp he got all at once for $250 is confused to what he's missing while visiting the other guy's work environment. Both go into a room with Augspurgers and know their investments up to this point mean nothing, lol. And both are still going to strive for something in the VTX price range afterwards because Augspurgers are an unreachable goal. Lol.
"Accuracy" is a selling point like saying Axe body spray get's you women. In actuality, it's not the axe spray(you could trade that out for Old Spice), but the confidence it gives you....the only material thing that get's women is exotic cars and mansions(priced fairly for this reason)...but by the time you can afford all that, you're too classy to douse yourself down with cheap Axe spray and you'd look at that with the same distaste as you'd look at old spice. Hope that analogy isn't confusing.
