Ooo! Be very interested to know if you are upgrading your monitors and if so to what?
Dave.
It's a possibility...but I won't make that decision until the room is done and I have my current monitors in there.
I have been thinking about it, and if I do move up from my Focal Twin6 it would probably be to the bigger Focal Trio6...though their latest Trio11 model is to die for, but man, that's a lot of $$$.
I do like the sound of my Focal Twin6 monitors, but think that in the bigger room, I may want the bigger low end. Of course, it could be deceptive, in that the bigger room naturally provides a bigger low end, so I may not need to go to a bigger monitor...but I have to first hear my Twins in the new room to know what they sound like.
At any rate...if I upgrade, odds are I will stay in the Focal line...I just don't want to go through another auditioning phase with other brands.
That said...there's a guy who has a pair of Barefoot monitors in great shape...but TBH, when I heard them in his studio, I wasn't all that excited about them.
They just seemed a bit too edgy...very forward...but then, it might have been the material he was playing on them, or his control room...though just based on that, I wouldn't switch to the Barefoot, but they are certainly one of the "hot" monitor brands to have in the studio world.
Not to mention...my budget ain't bottomless.
This studio build plus the remodeling I'm doing to the rest of my house is already going over what I initially expected...but then, I also expected it would go over, since most of these things do. They rarely end up being less than the original quote because things are changed, and items added once you get a better picture od what is being done or what you want done. Plus...there's the budget I put aside to add some audio gear...and I've already blown that.
Anyway...didn't mean to highjack the thread...but you asked.