Difference between Studio monitors, Full range speakers and Sound card
Studio Monitor: Studio monitor are loudspeakers in speaker enclosures specifically designed for professional audio production applications such as recording studios, Film making, television studios, Radio studios and project or home studios, where accurate audio reproduction is crucial.
The difference between a speaker and a monitor speaker is not always visually apparent. Studio monitor are speakers, but provide a different sound and are designed for a specific use in recording studios. Many studio monitors comes with integrated power amplifiers designed especially for the demanding specifications and applications of monitor speakers. Studio monitor are built with majorly different specifications, and designed to compress sound in its own environment and produce pleasant sound.
Full range speaker sound is measured in units called hertz(HZ) defined as the number of times a sound waves rises and falls frown its highest to lowest points in a single second. Studio monitor or monitor speakers are designed to provide a flat frequency response so that the audio signal is reproduced faithfully, within the budgetary constraints of the speaker. The monitor design focus is to avoid artificially boosting bass treble or other frequencies in our attempt to make the speaker sound good and to avoid resonances from the speaker and cabinet.
A sound card: is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signal to and from a computer under control of computer programs. The term sound card is also applied to external audio interface used for professional audio applications. Sound functionality can also be integrated onto the motherboard, using components similar to those found on plugin cards. The integrated sound system is often still referred to as a sound card.
Most sound cards have a line in connector for an analog input from a sound source that has higher voltage levels than a microphone in either case; the sound card uses an analog-to-digital converter, to digitize this signal. An important sound card characteristic is polyphony, which refers to its ability to process and output multiple independent voices or sound simultaneously…
