I think they're cool, they're my first real monitors (I used to mix on semi-high-end HiFi speakers for years with reasonable success). I've had them for a year and a half now but I'm still getting used to them, chiefly because I've only mixed three songs on them in all of this time. Also, I don't think I listen to enough music on them (which was the advice I was given so as to get familiar with them) so the only way for me to learn them is through my own mixes, i.e. the hard way I suppose.