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I don't care one way or another about the FR12, but will note that what is often seen in the "so much better than studio monitors" testimonials (about any monitor - not just FR12) is a person comparing how it feels to play a modeler through a pair of speakers sitting on a desk at ear height, 4 feet away from, and pointed straight at, their head to the experience using a single bigger speaker sitting on (or a lot closer to) the floor (often further away; often not pointed as directly at ear holes; often at louder volumes (very often at much louder volumes)). In such a scenario it is impossible to know if the "more like an amp" experience is due to a change in technology, or if it is simply due to the obvious-but-not-obvious notion that when you put an "FRFR" monitor in the same location you tend to put an amp played at a similar volume to how you play an amp, you are more likely to have a more amp like experience than if you put an "FRFR" monitor in a place(s) that you would never consider putting an actual amp and played at lower volumes than you typically play an actual amp.Well sure, and my experience was that the fender FR12 made a close mic’d IR sound more like an amplifier, regardless of what a couple guys in this thread say, who apparently have no personal experience with the FR12, but have a heavy bias against them for whatever reason.