Slaggers!!!
Alex, what you should really be looking for in a pair of near field monitors is an accurate representation of the mix.
Every one used Yamaha NS-10s back in the day (many still do) and they really sounded like crap to me. The trick was, if you could make a mix sound good on those, your mix would sound good just about everywhere else.
A few years ago I picked the M1-As over all the others I tried in that price range, and they were certainly the best bang for the buck at the time.
They sound sweet, ESPECIALLY when set up properly, but of course they lie. With most monitors, you need to know what they are really saying to you when they are lying.
Honestly.