RBH Sound raised a few eyebrows at the 2019 CEDIA show when they unveiled the PM-8 studio monitor which is a product for a very different market than RBH’s traditional focus of home audio. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been as much of a surprise since the requirements of studio monitors and home audio loudspeakers have a multitude of similarities. The only significant differences are that monitors need to have the appropriate connectivity to work in a studio environment, and that monitors more than home audio loudspeakers should strive to have an accurate sound that is faithful to the source signal. One would hope that typical home audio speakers would have some accuracy, but often they can be designed to sound ‘good’ rather than accurate. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it can complicate things especially when accuracy has been shown to sound ‘good’ in tests of human listening preferences. Seeing as how accurate sound also happens to sound good, it stands to reason then that studio monitors with ostensibly accurate sound should also be very good for recreational listening. That is what we will be looking at today since we have a pair of the PM-8s in for review…
READ: RBH Sound PM-8 Studio Monitor Review
