Quote Originally Posted by RGA
Yes recordings studios - the big ones Skywalker, Abbey Road use B&W - and assuming B&W isn't lying they claim to be used in more than 80% of all recording studios of classical music. If this is indeed the case they must be used by NAXOS as Naxos is the largest classical recorder and presumably Sony and London and Deutch Gramaphone . JBL are Pro monitors - my bad for forgetting JBL. Of course listening to JBL speakers often wants me want to forget them.
Well, just because B&W is used in those recording studios does not mean that they are the ONLY ones that are used. People who've been to Skywalker Sound have noted that while B&W is indeed used there, they are only used in one of the control rooms there. From the late-80s through the 90s, my understanding is that the most popular near-field monitor was the Yamaha NS10. Supposedly, its popularity was due in large part to how well recordings mixed through those monitors translated with car audio, mini systems, and other mass market products -- basically, how those recordings would actually get played back in the real world, not just on high resolution component-based audio systems.

JBL's professional and consumer lines are separate divisions, with different missions. One does not drive the other, except in name recognition and marketing.