Studio monitors are thought to be ruthlessly revealing and not possessed of the common dips and roll-offs which make home speakers enjoyable. Due to inevitable imperfections, good speaker systems are "voiced" by their designers to achieve desired goals. So before you decide which speakers suit you best, consider your own goals: the unadorned electronic truth? the emotional content? the gee-whiz factor? the foot tapping? Then find some software that displays those qualities and take it with you to your speaker audition.
