[QUOTE=RGA
I'm not attacking them for naming speakers like this - it is another nail in the advertising push to make it look more impressive on paper and it is a business. Heck I had a set of Hitachi speakers that were digital monitors LOL.

The term is all advertising. And a lot of people often have a tool to use for recording but would rather listen to music through something else.[/QUOTE]


The use of "reference" and "monitor" is an implied quality, and yeah...quite abused.

The only naming conventions that bother me are recievers:

instead of being names something like "Andromeda" or "model 2" they are often something like:

Sony THX-1120-4v(ht)l-101mkII
Kenwood VHX-T-10001-4HTL2.2

Oh come on! How in the hell am I supposed to remember wacky long names like that? Why not call it something easy to remember!