Studio monitors are nice to own for their pretty accurate frequency responses (in a acoustically treated envirement), and also their slick cosmetics. The truth of the matter is most of our "listeners" don't own reference monitors. They're more likely to be listening through a boom box, in ear head phones, a car or blasting at a night club through Hundreds of thousands of watts while being under the influence of whatever does the job are they really listening for the fine tuning
It's my experiences when using oversized monitors in a smaller, under treated room mixing is asking for low end troubles you either have way too much or not enough, and that also can play a part with mixing vocals ... I'm one of those people but what helps me is a lil' A and B'n... When I'm EQ'n with a crucial ear I use my monitors, to ensure I made the right mix I use my computer speakers or if those aren't handy bounce the mix to cd and take it to the house stereo or car and do what I gotta do....
My point being if you can make a recording sound good through a P.O.S. pair of speakers in a boom box your mix will sound good any where. So ask yourself this, do you even need those fancy "monitor speakers" if your working on Hip hop or other electronic music that doesn't really require mic'n live instruments.
Probably not
GBEATS
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