What are your favorite monitors?


I'm interested to hear what your favorite monitors are, both for general reasons and specific reasons. There seem to be a lot of quality monitors out there and it's an easy size to deal with. I'd like to become more familiar with more of them.

For the more specific reason. I'm going to be able to set up a small system in a small room using a modified SS Blue Circle integrated amp and RA Opus 21 CDP. Right now I have a pair of Spendor S3/5 speakers that are very good and this is the approximate size box I'm interested in, but larger are fine too. For this small system are there other monitors that you might recommend, that perhaps have a synergy with BC electronics? With so many monitors available and few available for local demo I would appreciate your critiques of the speakers you like.

I use Audience Au24 speaker cables. My music preference is for mostly classical (not a lot of orchestral), jazz, space music, bluegrass, finger picking acoustic guitar, and some rock music (but don't expect to rock out). I don't like bright speakers. The speakers may not be able to be too far out from the wall; consider this near-filed listening. Since the majority of monitors are not terribly expenisve I'm open to most suggestions price-wise. Thanks.
budrew
I will not try to answer your questions(s) in regards to the best for your setup, but will answer what my favorite is, B&W Signature 805. (Because I own it. (wink)) I agree that there are a number of very good monitors available.
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THEY ARE REVEALING WITHOUT BEING ANALYTICAL. LEADING & TRAILING EDGE OF TRANSIENTS ARE BELEIVABLE. IMAGE WELL.
THEY OFFER A BALANCED PRESENTATION WHERE ALL ASPECTS OF THE ACOUSTIC ARE PRESENT WITHOUT ANY AREA BEING "HYPED".
THEY USE SCAN SPEAK DRIVERS WITH A VERY WELL DESIGNED CROSSOVER.
REVIEWS ARE ON THIR WEB SITE & ALSO AVAILABLE ON ECOUSTICS.
CORDIALLY,
DAVE
You'd be hard pressed, and would have to spend a whole lot more money to find a better monitor than Green Mountain Audios' Europa. All one need do to verify this is listen to them. Then make up your own mind. Following the Europa though, for another monitor must be what following Hendrix was like to other guitarists.