active professional monitors for HT

Excellent design idea. Active monitors play quite loudly and can do the job nicely.

Many pro theater designers use Genelec for those reasons.

I suggest, at that price range, something that's tried and true, possibly in "B stock" or used on the net, and that's the Active M&K 150 THX monitors!

Sent you an e-mail.

Thanks for the responses. Some of the brands like PMC and NHT Xd are over my budget, but the others I am going to try to audition once I get further into the process. I anticipate that making decisions even after auditioning isn't going to be easy, because no one place will have all the brands, and the acoustic environments will differ greatly. For instance, it looks to me like Focal can only be auditioned at a working pro studio, whereas some of the others like Genelec, Adam, JBL are going to be at actual "stores" like Guitar Center.

BTW it was seeing reviews on the NHT Xd that in part interested me in actives for HT (that, and already owning a pair of Paradigm Reference Active/40 ...too bad Paradigm stopped making active monitors!) But as I said, the Xd is over my budget.