Advice on home speakers

No No No. Consumer hifi sucks ass. Think about it. The guys that master your favorite tunes use studio monitors to mix down the tracks prior to sending off to be pressed. what they hear is what you hear.

I have a pair of active Mackie hr824's right here in my studio/ hit me up to listen to that shit !!!!!

Active studio monitors all the way.

fair enough, but monitors are designed to expose any flaws in a mix, they don't flatter the music like hi-fi and many nearfields won't give you a heavy bass that so many people like to hear.

for listening to music, decent hi-fi is less fatiguing on the ear and will usually give the better sound in a household environment.

mastering house have many thousands of £££ worth of acoustic treatment, before they even switch on the montoring, and the cost of speakers for mastering runs way beyond that of the home hi-fi set up by a very long way.

what they hear is what you hear isn't correct unless you also have a mastering studio.

their job is to make mixes work on your (and every otherperson's) hi-fi.