Hey kcmcramer......
Very nice of you to chime in.
For the record, I've been using JBL-4410's and Tascam S1010M's (near-fields) since 1990 and they're still doing their job well.....then it's out to the truck stereo....then to the living room stereo.....and then all is good.
I've been writing/recording for some time and have never, ever heard of Klipsch being used as reference monitors or any sort of near-fields.
I would think, by default, that these would be 'frequency response tweaked' more for audiophile purposes anyway rather than studio reference monitoring.
BUT, I've certainly been wrong in the past and as I'm re-arranging the studio I thought I would just check with this think tank for some education on this inquiry.
You're comment being.....'Klipsch speaks can take so much punishment (both in frequency response and dynamic response), you might not realize that your music will probably overdrive most other speakers.'....is certainly interesting and I would have never considered that aspect.
I'll be lurking around here more often so thank you very much for your response and clearing this up for me....a great day to you.
Quaz out