I wanted a pair of monitors in a budget and searched for many. All of them were either too expensive or poor sound quality. At last I bought a pair of Alesis Elevate 5 as an experiment. All I can say about this speakers is, just superb..! For the money I've paid, it serves pretty well and beyond if you ask me. Some people may complain about the bass, and I would say this is not a fancy home theater if you expected a rumbling low freq output. It is flat, and precise for most of use. I'd rather use my headphones for a closer monitoring though.