Ditto plegnic: Real studio monitors are real expensive. Lots of cheap crappy speakers these days make pretensions of being "pro" quality or "studio monitors". Real studio monitors are capable of accurate sound reproduction at ear-splitting levels. No $100 speakers need apply, whether new or used -- just aint happenin' in this lifetime. Take it from someone with decades of obsession with high quality sound reproduction...going all the way back to the original AR-3's. Just out of curiosity, how many of you remember those? Even visited the original AR factory at 24 Thorndike Street in Cambridge, MA "back in the day".