Sorry to bump an ancient thread but I'm sooo impressed with how well my set of ESM-3 performs. I use them as studio monitors as well as for general listening. They are much more forgiving than my Neumann monitors, but still accurate enough to work with in my opinion. And not very expensive but it seems that there aren't many for sale online anymore. I tried to sell mine when I got a set of Stratus Gold I recently. Found room for both in the end, and fortunately, no one swooped them on me. Would have been a shame to let these go.