Studio Monitors For the Home Studio

Studio Monitors are those fancy looking speakers that you want to call speakers, yet you know that they are a bit more than that.

Also known as reference monitors, their job is to translate the sounds of your mix as ACCURATELY and non-biased as possible.

The ideal is as close to as flat, or neutral response as you can. 

The environment you record in can interfere with both the sounds that are recorded, and the way these sounds are heard. Thus, a true set of near field reference monitors can be your best guide to judging the production quality of your mixes. In addition to getting better sounding productions, getting to know your monitors will help develop your production techniques.

Here is the full article on understanding Home Studio Monitors.

Also, here is a full article series on Home Studio Setup.