Monitor Dilemma/What to Buy Now?

I must say the Amphion one 15 and one18 are the only speakers I am recommending to my mastering clients..
I would encourage all of you to test these.
They dust all of the small monitors I have used including Barefoot MM27s and ATCs.

Yes been following amphion ; the in home no question return policy is very cool but you need a good amp too.

I am up in cdn and they don't have their distribution sorted; something about scandanavian sled dogs crying in their leads  

jcoutu1 what amp are you using ?

oh poor boy, ONLY pmc tb1's , ah thats a first world recording problem right ?

seriously how do you like their non port design ? etc

Aluminum driver? Papernpulp are known to be most detailed and accurate no? Isn't accuracy A-1 most important? I'm no expert on monitors, just curious 

There have been a lot of speaker manufacturers embracing Aluminum cones recently, not my taste, but than acurrate speakers are an oxymoron. As I keep saying you don't listen to monitors you listen through them. A speaker that "shoes things that no other shows " can just as easily be wrong as right, part of using a speaker is knowing when it's lying to you, that's most often based on what the majority of other speakers are going to sound like.
I would love to use full range planers or Electrostatics in the studio, but when I have the final product just won't play well with even some of the best dynamic speakers the soundstage and detaile just disappear .

The Amphion is interesting as they have a aluminum cone and a Titanium tweeter but they sound just lovely. The details are not hyper accentuated to the point of over analysis just very obvious.
I have been through most of the major players in the last 20 or so years and these translate better than some very expensive systems and are quite forgiving of room acoustics.
To give an idea I felt dunlevys were not quite enough so I had custom 3way DEQX based mains built with Raal, Accuton and scan speak drivers.
After hearing these small wonders I considered selling my mains and getting there Two18 model.

this is semantics to me bromee, of course you want to hear what it is you working on unencumbered by a lackluster monitor design, Accuracy, transparency, detailed, ...whatever you want to call it, i "listening through" my HR824's all the time, if i listened to "them" id cry lol, that said they hype problem areas IMV, S's, transients and mid low whoof is pronounced, so if you can make that disappear while using them, you're on to something, not very inspiring though.. 
   Moving forward I want something thats real to life, not hyping or hiding anything, what i hear is what i get, but still nonclinical and enjoyable to listen to... I'm sure that is asking too much and i will need to find a compromise, that is why i'm starting with a Jim Williams adcom power amp to hamster wheel top of the line drivers in the diy ProAc's, i hope they are the shit??? If not, i'll move on (this will be the last, and arguably most important move i make here....probably 2020 or so lol 8)

Definatley, some quite interesting stuff coming out of Fluid Audio as well in the Coax department. The guy who builds these worked for Avid's monitor dept.

Well if you've heard the Sceptres then the Equators are pretty much the same with more mid detail in them and a slightly better stereo image, but they have a slight habbit of going a bit awry after two or three years and the Sceptres had a slightly better bass response. I'll probably just end up buying some more Equators tbh, but I am impressed with the Sceptre's must admit ..

There's also the APS coax monitors that got great reviews, out of everything I've ever bought in my studio Coax monitors by far made the biggest difference. I'm sure there are much better than PRE / Equator and APS out there, but I've yet to find them.

Funnily enough I've tried some Equator Q10's and I really didn't like them LOL!.

Big Edit:

One thing I noticed between the two COAX's, even though the design is quite similar the way they work is very different. Equators are the epitome of "near field" you ideally want to be 2 feet away from them.. When you start to get around 4 feet they tend not to work as intended, whereas the Sceptre's required you to be at LEAST 3 feet away from them for you to get the correct stereo image and they need to be positioned wider than the equators too.

So a lot of this comes down to the size of your room.

But one thing I've found with Coax, you don't have to sit bolt up-right in a certain position to get the best out of the stereo image. You can move around a fair bit and it doesn't matter, with the Focals and even the Event Opals I couldn't get away with it nowhere near as much.

www.musicradar.com/reviews/tech/equator-d8-590063

I have to admit I'm very interested, but there's literally nowhere I can find that demo's them . Also, really you'd need the two18's to get a decent freq response from them, which ain't cheap.

I'll see if I can find somewhere to try them, they'd have to be something mighty impressive to stand toe to toe with the D5's.! I'm going to be brutally honest as this is the sort of site I can be without everyone freaking out.

No Dynaudio's, Sonodynes, Focals, Genelec's, Adams or Events would make me get rid of these. Complement them maybe, replace them never!!..

Thanks Kcat!

I've brought some Presonus Sceptre's home as well, so I could listen to them in a properly treated room. I have to agree with Martin John Butler, they have a low mid bump around 200hz then they have a lack of mids further up?! I've been messing around with the controls on the back, but at the moment whilst they are good they really aren't on par with the Equators.

I'll let you know if I get some Amphion's to try out ..