Near field monitor advice please

Is this the same room as the NS5000 or a different room? If it is a different room then I think a KEF LS50 regular or Meta is great. However, I would not put it on the desk I would put the 3 monitors up against the wall and then the speakers behind me. It is great this way. I have tried LS50’s, Audience 1+1 V3, and Audioengine 2 on my desktop and they were only adequate. Putting the LS50 behind me was a fantastic improvement.

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Now if your NS5000 are in the same room as these computer monitors send me a PM and I will give you more info of someone local to you who will make them sing. I just did this and it is shocking how incredible the improvements are in my small room. I believe your NS5000 are in a small room from our past conversation.

BTW - the Thiel CS3.7 and the NS5000 were my finalist for my office but since the office is so small I went with the slightly less bass heavy CS3.7. Still considering the NS5000 for my downstairs in 2021.

After buying and selling multiple 'quality' speakers over the last 5 years or so I would buy a kit and make my own...or a used pair of persona b although I have never demoed the b 3' from my head.

You could investigate single driver speakers and connect them to an OTL amp. Get rid of two problems - the speaker crossover and the amp transformer. It won't be perfect but it might get you closer to happy nearfield listening. In my experience you don't need a big OTL amp to achieve this effect, if you use active speakers - you can use a headphone OTL amp for the main gain, and go from there to the speaker amp, just giving the OTL sound stage a bit more muscle.

You know, I just thought of them but some salk wow1 would be a good little speaker for that applicatio... check them out!

I agree with the recommendations for Salk Sound and Madisound. However, most monitors are not designed for nearfield listening. Purchase monitors from a company that is willing to help with tweeter attenuation. You can swap out the resistors yourself. Tell a rep whether you want to increase or decrease the tweeter level, and they should consult you with different resistor values to experiment with and which resistor to swap. It might be as simple as adding a shunt resistor to the crossover. In this case, you would twist some wires together if you're not comfortable with a soldering iron. 

The monitors designed for nearfield listening most likely have a flat frequency response for studio purposes, so I don't recommend pro-gear for daily listening. 

Check out the offerings from Taylor Speakers and Selah Audio. Taylor Speakers makes cabinets for kits available on Madisound. Rick Craig from Selah Audio sells monitors of his own designs. He might be able to tweak the crossover for nearfield listening. He's very knowledgeable, and his customer service is excellent. I recommend that you have a conversation with him. 

How handy are you in the DIY realm? The Satori Ara 2-way speaker kit can be purchased with beautiful prefabricated cabinets addressing time alignment, diffraction, and standing waves. The entire kit can be purchased with upgraded Beryllium tweeters for under $2k.