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To a large extent, today’s high-level monitor loudspeakers had their origins in motion picture technology that began in the late 1920s. Subsequent development of high-frequency (HF) compression driver and horn systems during the 1930s gave us an art that has remained largely unchanged in its fundamental aspects for more than half a century. Recent years have seen remarkable developments in areas once thought to be the domain of consumer high fidelity, and it is now possible to design monitor loudspeakers using direct radiator components that have high output capability with reliability and low distortion. The base of measurement has broadened substantially in the last decade, and we now find monitor loudspeaker designs that have been refined in areas scarcely thought of earlier.
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Eargle, J. (1992). Monitor Loudspeakers. In: Handbook of Recording Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1129-5_13
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