Oh, I do too. Unfortunately my wife and kids don’t. 
And vice versa. I like to zone out from the madhouse sometimes. Got six kids at home. Struggle to get any peace and quiet!
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Yikes!
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The Eris 3.5 or 4.5 look great, I was in the market for a 4.5 when I picked up my Alesis.
Kind of eyeing a pair of Yamaha HS7 at the moment though. 95W 6.5", with some nice room correction features. I want it for the bass response much more than the loudness; I don’t even get my Elevate 3’s above noon.
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Yeah, they are good. Just be aware @PamPurrs that they are flat studio monitors. You will hear the sound the way it was intended to sound. A lot of speakers and headphones mess with the sound, so you might be used to a song sounding differently.
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Yeah, this is important - studio monitors are generally very flat sounding and not what you might expect for music listening. By design. They do not sound like normal stereo speakers. Music may sound odd to you through them for a reason you can’t put your finger on.
The same is true of monitor headphones.
And on second look, HS5’s are probably a better choice for me 
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Okay, now a new can of worms has been opened. LOL
When you record a song, wouldn’t you want to know what it actually sounds like to the people you hope will listen to it? Most people would be listening to it on headphones from a laptop, car stereo, etc.
What does “Flat sound” mean anyway?
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some studios have super accurate monitors sitting right next to super crappy ones for just that purpose.
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if you take a frequency response measurement it would look reasonably flat from 20Hz to 20Khz ideally (the range of human hearing). but most people like different roll offs, I like my sound rolled off on top so it sounds a little less bright.
flat response:
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This is correct. Applies to the radio industry as well. I’ve heard of a radio station who’s “reference” speaker was an old crappy speaker out of a Chevy S10 because that’s the type of speaker most of the audience will listen through.
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So now I’m thinking, for someone like me who records as sort of a hobby, maybe 12-15 covers a year, would spending money on studio speakers even be worth it?
I just made an offer for a pair of PreSonus Eris E3.5 monitors on Reverb that are listed for $50. For that amount, it’s worth giving it a try.
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you know how it goes, worth it to who? if you want to hear a completely accurate reproduction of what you’re recording so you can tweak individual settings and actually hear what the tweaks are doing, then maybe. you have mentioned your hearing isn’t all that great, a common thing. would you get any benefit out of it, that would be for you to say. you could always try a set of studio monitors and see how you like it, and if not then reverb
i personally use a pair of krk rokits, which i really like. beware, studio monitors are sold individually unlike stereo speakers, not in pairs.
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yeah, people do that. i don’t really know why, i would think you want to tailor your sound to the highest common denominator rather than the lowest. i always felt if something sounds good on good speakers, it will also sound as good as it can on bad ones. but that’s just me.
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That’s why I asked you if you really needed them
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They want to tailor it to maximize the income, not the high fidelity sound quality. See also, the Loudness Wars.
Nothing like compressing the sh*t out of your dynamics just to move product 
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I thought you were role playing with me on how to explain a speaker purchase to Sara 
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i mean, sure i get the financial motivation (although it seems that the whole loudness war fiasco blew up in everyone’s faces and they have gotten away from that now to some extent).
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You made an offer too?
hah no that reply was to JT. i was messaging him yesterday about him selling all his gear and today i did the same.
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