Very new to high end audio - Recomendations

Knowledge is almost zilch when it comes to speakers/amps etc.

You’ll fit right in. [Sorry, couldn’t resist]

Most here are FanBoys. Ignore ALL specific recommendations. No one has your taste in music, response, level or R O O M !

IMO, powered speakers are a risk. They are convenient for recording engineers that move from studio to studio. I've never heard a pair that I’d want to take home.

You can fine tune separates with cables and amplifiers. FWIW, which is zero, I had the same speakers for 35 years and 5 different amps and about the same number of cables for both interconnect and speaker. [Truth in advertising dept: Speakers were Spica TC-50 and I place coherence over frequency response six ways to Sunday.]

Since you referenced quid, search out some High End HiFi shops relatively close by. [Distances are much less in the UK than here in the US.] Time spent now trolling the waterfront will keep money in your pocket later. If you are in one of the bigger burgs, there may be a HiFi or Tube society. Worth checking out.

Bonne Chance!

Knowledge always starts from the beginning :)

For that budget KEF Ls50 active monitors Second hand as have streaming inbuilt  1/2 box simple solution 

@richdirector  I've really been admiring the KEF LS50's apart from wireless, are the MKII the way to go or the normal LS50 work really nicely aswel? im not to fussed on wireless.


No thoughts on the paradigm monitor 5's?

For that thousand pound budget, try some used equipment first. You can always sell it if not to your taste. And, james633 has a great idea: JBL sells at deep discounts all the time (my son scored a pair of Studio 570 at 50% of retail, they sound very fine with a stack of Carver from the 1980s: C2 pre, m200t amps monoblocked, Schiit Modi3 and laptop source).