Monitor? Options

[seabass069]

What is a good pair of monitors I can buy for $500. I want powered speakers.

[lepetitmartien]

My personal experience with all the M-audio monitors has been deceptive (save the last one, I've not heard still). The small are just multimedia monitors hence not qualifying at all (better buy some Altec Lansing the bigger boxes being muddy, and rather tiring.

Now, this subject has been treaded zillion times there's short lists of the cool ones around in this very same forum and in getting started (I have lots of troubles to connect since saturday, so I'll use my time for better things than the search anyone can do)

The Alesis Kaboom pointed to are reliable stuff, but Samson for example has great little things around too just to name them.

And yes SOS is a great magazine (I even read it!