Monitor? Options

[seabass069]

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

[mortalengines]

I never had that problem with crackling unless there was some distortion occuring inside the program (had that with Reason until I rased the samples per second in my audio preferences window- they miraculously disappeared at the cost of increased latency which is ok as there are workarounds to this issue). By the way, monitors are supposed to be ACCURATE, not necessarily "great" sounding...the idea being that you are getting an "accurate" mix that sounds good on even a crappy little ghetto blaster in somebody's garage.