"Best" mini-monitor?

Srosenberg

The D1 are very fine speakers but at the $30k price range they are a bit much for many people don't you think and do you really think they are better than an ME 1 and or substatially better for almost 3 times the price?

Personally I think this would be an interesting demo, I would say I have heard the D1 at shows and was impressed we feel that the Radihos are just a bit on the too expensive side for what you are getting. 

Persona B, absolutely.

Definitely listen to Raidho though (higher price).  

I’d also suggest Gamut, but above your budget as well.  I stick with my Persona B recommendation.  Absolutely magic.

Almost every review I've ever read regarding "high-end" monitors points to the fact that usually the speakers are "over-achievers" for their size.  This is a good thing- amazing bass for their size, very coherent two-driver design with an innovative crossover, etc.  But also, they may need a top-flight amplifier to get the best results, have fussy placement issues but are "amazing" once you get it right, break-in can also take some time, the stands have to be special and the just the right height, cabling can become a critical factor, etc.  My only suggestion is that just perhaps a speaker that is a bit "smaller" in size (relatively) that plays sweetly at moderate volumes (not to say you can't turn them up on occasion, but why for 90% of the music you prefer would that be necessary?) might be more enjoyable and not drive you from the room.
You still want a very well made speaker of course, but you just might have to spend LESS money after considering just how small a room you're talking about.  The only exception i would think of is if you cover most of it with special sound treatments, Otherwise maybe a high-resolution monitor might give you too much of a good thing.  
    Long ago I had a pair of ADS speakers and never (NEVER) was
disappointed with the sound, whether i was listening to classical, jazz, rock, female vocals, whatever.  Of course my standards have risen over the years since, and so have the number of "problems" i had to find
solutions to.  Not that i haven't had fun doing all this when I got enough money together.  But now it's finally the room that for me is the limiting factor.   
      

Long ago I had a pair of ADS speakers and never (NEVER) was
disappointed with the sound, whether i was listening to classical, jazz, rock, female vocals, whatever.

Me too, ADS L810s, which I stupidly sold a long time ago.  Finally found the same level of enjoyment with Aerial speakers, designed by Michael Kelly (formerly designer for ADS).

As large monitors, I now have Aerial LR5s on Sound Anchor stands and, along with two Aerial SW12 subs, I have not heard a better speaker system in my room.  As long as you have the power (to drive the lowish efficiency of the LR5s) there is no practical volume limit in a moderately large room.  Very dynamic yet smooth, with great tone and a touch of warmth (maybe due to paper drivers).   At Kelly's suggestion, I run the LR5s full range and roll in the subs at around 40Hz, but if I was aware of a very high quality high-pass crossover that would not affect sonics in the upper frequency ranges then I would try it. 

I am a big fan of ADS as well and have owned 520, 710. 810, 980, 1090, 1530, l8e, l9e, 620, 520, sat 7 and for me the sleeper was the l9e’ however they are very rare. The 710’s still remain my go to recommendation for people on a budget that want good sound for little $$. They are easy to drive and there is something about that soft dome midrange that just sounds right to me.

I’ve moved on to Speaker Art now and have yet to find a standmount that I like better after hearing and ownin many others. The one that comes closest are the Ryan R610’s. For the money and size they are tough to beat. I would like to checkout aerials at some point, I had a pair of the ERA d5’s that he designed for Peachtree and they were pretty impressive little speakers.