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Monitors are preferred when your goal when listening is to hear the music exactly as it was made. I.e. most decent monitors will have what is known as a 'flat frequency response', which simply means that none of the frequency ranges will be boosted/reduced. Home speakers have a tendency of increasing the bass a little, not making them ideal for production purposes.
When shopping for your monitors you'll notice that they come in both 'passive' and 'active'. 'Passive' means that you will an external amplifier to drive them, 'active' means that they have already have an amp (in fact most have more than just one) built into the speaker itself, so they are simply a case of plug and play. Active speakers tend to be the better choice here, as the amplifiers are usually purpose built for the specifications of that particular speaker.
The next point is what kind of price range are you looking at?
The KRK Rokit series have an excellent reputation for clean sound and a fairly good price to boot. The Behringer Truth and M-Audio BX range that have been also been mentioned in this thread are worth looking at too. Most importantly, see if you can get to a shop where you can actually test some of the monitors out to see what you prefer, as not everyone has the same ears.
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