Well, active studio monitors have built in amplifiers, so the amplifiers and the speakers are perfectly matched and won't colour the sounds as an external amplifier may do. Passive monitors require an additional external amplifier.
Active monitors will cost more than passive monitors, but you'll know you have good monitoring system, that you can directly wire-up to you're mixer.
About using studio monitors for producing. Well, that's exactly what they were ment for.

Red Room.

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^^^ Agree with RedRooM - you'll probably end up spending more moolah for passive + amp than powered monitors. You can get a nice set of powered KRK's now for dirt cheap or even Mackie-made Tapco S-5. Linky

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Originally posted by Sunquest Does anyone else think melodic trance is dying?

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Originally posted by Swamper Trance is dead. All the people listening to it now are dead too. Registered Ghosts: 43,900 217,667 threads in total | 3,722,184 posts in total Currently Active Dead Users: 608

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much Red Room. Now i understand what the difference is..

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