By Dan Daley
When mixers are asked about audio monitors, their responses tend to focus on the trucks that the speakers are in rather than the speakers themselves. Unanimously, sports-audio mixers find that the monitors themselves are generally fine, regardless of type or technology; it’s the monitoring environment that concerns them.“Not one truck is really designed around what a good audio-monitoring environment should be,” says Phil Adler, who freelances on football, college hoops, and pro boxing for CBS Sports and other networks.