Any downside to using a nicer set of Studio Monitors (speakers) for everyday use?

[August West]

My custom built monitors (with focal drivers) have served double duty quite often. i don't worry about over using them and it's been almost 20 years. I appreciate them myself, but an uneducated ear might not be able to discern the true quality and linear response they reproduce. I do find it very tiring to listen to bad monitors and bad mixes at this point. Also, It is nice to be able to recognize outstanding mixers and their work.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

The speakers can't be hurt electrically unless you feed them clipping high frequency signals. Sunlight and ozone attacking the cones/surrounds are the main things to worry about. Next, way, way down the probability, is the crossover capacitors failing if they are electrolytics or some other type of caps that might short out. Some speaker magnets might lose strength, but that typically only happens with cheap speakers when run hot for a really long time.

[clay]

good input, all, thanks. I think I'm going to go for it, and I guess I'll just pipe everything through my audio interface. I guess at some point down the road, I could get a small USB DAC for the normal computer audio so I don't have to keep my interface powered up all the time. But, for now, it seems like just running everything through the interface will work just fine. Plus, since I already have the hardware I need to do it, I can't beat free!

[Dennis S]

I used some of the Yamaha NSM-10s for home speakers for awhile. I think you may want to use your EQ settings more than usual.

[kj]

Dennis S wrote:
I used some of the Yamaha NSM-10s for home speakers for awhile. I think you may want to use your EQ settings more than usual.

Those are actually one of the sets notorious for sounding pretty harsh even though they are ubiquitous and clearly useful. kj.