Miller & Kreisel Professional (M&K) MPS1510 Black

Some of you might be thinking "Studio monitors? - yuk, bright, in your face etc" - let me put you right straight away, these are absolutely stunning speakers - incredibly open and uncolored (small, highly braced cabinet helps here) with a wide and deep soundstage and very good stereo imaging.

The best bit, to my ears, is the quality of the treble - to me, great treble is detail and accuracy without brightness and this is what the 1510's deliver in spades - you hear every detail but it's not thrown in your face - these are not wearing speakers. I won't pretend they will cover up a bad quality recording (and why should they?) but neither do they draw particular attention to it.

The only other thing to add is that they require plenty of high quality amplification - they are sealed boxes and are incredibly well braced so they soak power up like nobody's business - I'd say they need at least 100 watts of genuine power - they are not the sort of speakers that you should put on the end of a budget AV amp - they would probably sound awful in this situation.

Miller Kreisel Professional MPS1510 studio monitor in black finish. The monitor has a few scratches and a ding(see in pics), but sounds amazing! I wish I had more.

These are getting increasingly rare and hard to find. The cabinet would probably rate a strong 6-7 out of 10. $250