I have owned a couple of studio monitors and wanted something that I could travel with which gives me a decent reference. Let me tell you upfront that these are not your bass heavy/extended speakers, so don't expect to have those bottoms rumbling. Get the bigger brother if thats your musical style.What they are is that they are nicely flat and have good mid range detail, works for what I need them to do . This is a good reference monitor for independent bedroom producers, mix engineers and composers.