A studio monitor with greater detail than a Rococo painting

What’s the difference between a hi-fi speaker and a studio monitor? Sometimes very little, and sometimes quite a lot.

The Focal Shape 65 are far from the first pair of studio monitors we’ve tested here at What Hi-Fi? – we use a pair of passive monitors as our reference speakers, after all – but this is the first time we’ve reviewed a pair of nearfield monitors as just that, and not as a product that crosses over into the home audio sphere.
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