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Alanzo, don't buy genelecs cause if your using high end monitors in a small room with no acoustic treatment your wasting your money and your not going to benefit from the high fidelity of the speakers .
The Behringer Truth's b2031 or 2031a, difference is in design, new seperate limiter and maybe more, but I don't know as of yet. I'm waiting for the 2031a's.
The alesis mk2 actives are 100 dollars more. Pros: great imaging Cons:unpredictable bass, and they have 2 bass ports which can make it hard to get a good bass response in a small room.
Fostex pm-1: never heard them but i read the review in SOS and they seem ok. They are not shielded and I heard the mids are strange and not to everyones liking.
Bx8's: I heard them and they have no bass, way to harsh, but they do have adjustments on the back and if i had them at home in my room maybe they would sound better.
Events tr8: best of the bunch, these things are 500 a pair but definently better than the rest. very soft sound, pleasant midrange, ample bass but the highs are a bit muddy. Still cant beat performance /price ratio. flat response they translate well. they go low 35-38khz, around there.
tannoy actives; 600, out of my budget also, not enough bass, really clear, but i prefered the events.
Now monitors are a personal choice. what sounds good to one person might sound horrible to another. Th best way is to listen for yourself and make your choice. All this talk about flat response and stuff really isnt important. what is , is that your monitors sound good to you and you can work with them for extended periods oif time without getting ear fatigue. every monitors must be learned, that is why you need to play your favorite tracks through it, and get an idea of what the levals are like so you know where to boost and where to cut when your mixing. Some are clearer than others and offer you better speration of sound, but if your 3-4 feet away in a small room high fidelity imaging isnt really that important. Also the dyns, mackies, genelecs have crystal clear sound, u can hear everything, but for trance music i dont feel its neccessary, as long as u got ample bass response. Trance is played in clubs not on high fidelity stereos like jazz, classical, etc.. No need to hear the bass player flipping the sheet notes. I just found out tiesto uses krk v8's and if you look at this review youll notice they get a lower score than the behringers but his tracks sound great to me probably because he knows his monitors and is comfortable with them and knows the way they should sound so they translate well on big club speakers.
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Every big radio hit from the 90's was mixed on ns-10, horrible sounding monitors. They started off as reference monitors too see if the track would sound good on boomboxes, car radios, but eventually became the industry standard cause most tracks are heard throgh car radios, home stereos, ghetto blasters, etc...
If you ever do classical, get the genelecs or adams. for trance any of those will do 
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