I got some new monitors!

The problem is crappy Chinese OEM power supplies with transformers with bad lamination and shitty bunghole filtering caps that lie about their real value. Then you have a small monitor manufacturer not moving hundreds of thousands of units like JBL (Samsung), KRK (Gibson), or Yamaha so they can’t perform quality control like that.

For active two way monitors, break out the wallet and get either Quested V2108 or ATC SCM20ASL. The electronics suck in everything but ATC and Quested ime

I’ve also had Psi on my radar but again, it’s starts getting pricey up there.

Seriously good info here. Yeah, the Klasiks are a bit unfortunate. They really did sound excellent, but if the reason they are so cheap is the power supply and amp, then I'm kinda glad I don't have them anymore. Aren't the SCM12 passive? I've listened to ATC'a and kind of love the sound, but if you need any low end, you're pushed way up into the expensive bracket. I was also looking at Geithain RL906's which are a bit of stretch, but kind of what I was looking for in the first place. Coax, active, high quality. I just can't seem to find a dealer in the states.

Geithains seem good but you can’t buy them here in the USA. Some of the German and Dutch guys I talk to a lot told me the high end is “funny” due to the woofers intermodulating the coaxial tweeter more than normal. Instead of an entire coaxial driver assembly like Tannoy or Radian, they just stick the drivers on top of each other. They said it was great except for the treble. Most of the hype was due to that gearslutz thread where the guy was running monitors through a Trinnov, killing detail and headroom. Boosting bass on most active monitors to get past the electronic high pass filter just raises distortion and then trying to linearize stuff like PSIs and the active ATCs, which use both use delays to keep the drivers time and phase coherent, will always fail horribly. So that entire thread was just for the op in his room running through his Trinnov. He complained about Quested H108 and chose Amphion over them because some guy was using the Questeds (with no waveguide to color the sound and restrict dispersion) in front of a sun window in an untreated room. He said the H108s running off a diy Ncore 400 were more “distorted” than Amphions despite them just revealing the class d bullshit treble and low current bass and that’s when I realized his impressions were less reliable than the guys posting in the Amphion thread. The Volt woofer and Morel tweeter shit on the quite decent Seas drivers for detail. The Amphions are just brighter and have more imd from aluminum driver breakup and are grossly underpowered by a 400w per channel class d amp, so less/more inaccurate bass.

I am no high end buyer by a long stretch, but some of these reasons are a good argument to go separates/passive. It's so much more convenient to have separate speakers and amps, at least for me. What's here is a Focal Aria 906 pair and an Emotiva XPA-200 power amp. All the other rooms here are passive/amp as well.

"Bullshit treble and low current bass," love that, can totally relate to that experience.

Fulcrum.

Those looks nuts in a good way!

Yeah, I’ve pretty much decided that I’m just gonna spend money and get some real speakers that I’ll have for many years to come. I’ve had a rotating cast of mid to low level monitors in my studio for the last 15 years, and I’m kind of over it. Definitely gonna use the financing option as well. I really like ATC. The scm12 are at the top of my list. I’d probably get the matching amp as well just so I don’t ever question the setup. Both Sweetwater and Vintage King have great financing options on these.

Hell yeah, Congrats!!! That’s awesome 👏 No second guessing the monitoring now. After 15 years that has to be an amazing feeling to get exactly what you want no compromises!

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the ATC's. Those have been on my radar as well.

Man, that is so exciting: colour me fluorescent green !!!!

Sigh,,,,