[Agua]

Look closer at the picture...you'll notice a small pair of shitty computer speakers and they are permanently dialed in at 85dB C-weighted, slow response, and there's a shitty "sub" along with those, decoupled from the desk, sitting behind the monitor. If I mix on the big speakers (also referenced to 85dB etc, etc) and it sounds acceptable on the shitty speaker, then I know I'm on the right track. Between the nice speakers, the shitty speakers, nice headphones, ear buds, shitty headphones, my car stereo, and an old beat up boom box, I can dial in a mix pretty well and be confident that it will translate. The outboard EQ is not activated during mixing (more for pleasure listening), and other than a push in 225-300 Hz range in the AR3's, the mix translates pretty well to other systems.

The monitors I really want are between $7,000-$15,000 per monitor, and yes, they are worth every penny. I've never heard speakers like these before, and you can be sure that your mixes will translate to just about any playback system.

http://www.pmc-speakers.com/productCats.php