Please please please AUDITION whatever gets the most votes, and at least the second place vote getter, before you buy! It's much better to KNOW you love what your buying than to wonder if what your hearing is what you're supposed to be hearing. There is enough variation in speakers in any price range that you can buy something that over time (and not much of that) that you will come to absolutely hate the sound of, where even a half an hour spent just listening could save you from a miserable experience. You've got a good list of candidates, several of which I auditioned myself and a couple I would have liked to audition but couldn't. Perhaps to my loss, the ones I couldn't audition I couldn't buy, yet I dearly love the speakers I have. And you might just find the perfect monitor that we haven't even heard of yet - I never saw a single recommendation for the speakers I wound up buying. I did get a pair of one of the speakers on your list, but without knowing your musical preferences or anything about your gear, I can't recommend them to you. If you've been lingering for a while, you already know not all speakers play nicely with all gear, and some won't play with some gear at all; and some speakers can really rock, but merely croak when it comes to complex classical music. Not to mention the importance of your listening room. So, please, give us a little more info and let us give you some USEFUL feedback.
Regards:
chas
Regards:
chas