[Petronius]

Colleagues, Here is an anecdote that is germane to our discussion;
Some years ago I read an article about Barry Gordy and Motown in an audio magazine. I have forgotten which one. The article was more on the recordings Motown made and how they were monitored. I seems that Mr. Gordy was interested in a monitor that had "that one true sound."
At one time Motown was monitoring with a system that used 4 JBL D130's per side and were tuned in such a way that they delivered a peak at around 100 Hz and shook the building!
At one point they were using the AR 3a. Unfortunately The AR's were not up to the challenge and would barely last a week before they would go through a woofer or most often the midrange. AR would gladly sent new ones as they were happy to be able to say that the 3a was being used as a studio monitor.
I'm sorry I don't remember what magazine or who the author was. It was probably around 1974.