Small-sized monitors

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Hey everyone. Chances are what I am looking for does not exist or cannot work. But anyways, are there any decent-quality small sized monitors? I don't hear too much great stuff about the Edirol's, but around that size.

The deal is I am going off to college to a dorm room in August - and I need something that will fit my room. I may already be taking a bunch of other stuff, and I probably won't be able to fit anything too big in my room.

What I was thinking, though, was if I could find some decent, small monitors and then add a good subwoofer. Since the subwoofer would be on the floor, that could be a little bigger than the other two since I'd have more space for that.

So I don't know if it's possible to get some smaller monitors with a decent low frequency response sub. I need to get down to at least 40 Hz since the bass in my music is important. It's a shame that those PS-3.1 Fostex speakers just do not sound too good, from what I hear. That would be an ideal size - and price - except it has a frequency response starting at 80 Hz!!!

I don't need something that is perfect - cause I know that I probably won't get even close with my situation. I just need something that is decent - maybe when I get home I'll fix things up properly. If you have any regular computer speakers that happen to be able to work somewhat as monitors - I know I'm really stretching things - but just in case. I just really want to take something with me to school, you know what I'm saying?

Thanks for advice in advance,
Craig
 
do you want active or passive and whats the budget........
 
It doesn't matter

It doesn't matter if it's active or passive - I think I could squeeze in an amplifier somewhere, you know? I'm willing to take a look at all the options. I'll go take a look at those KrK V4's.
 
There's no way you're even gonna get close to 40Hz with things that size.
 
40 Hz

I know I can't get anything close to 40 Hz with speakers that size, but I am wondering if I could add a subwoofer to get the frequency response down to 40. I'd like to get some small, inexpensive monitors that sound good over all, except for their low end, and then buy another subwoofer to take the whole system down to 40 Hz. How does that sound?

prefer everything to be inexpensive - I don't know if it is possible to do inexpensively while still being somewhat decent - but if it really isn't possible - I'll take the best I can get for what's possible. I'm just curious about the best monitors to get that are small, you know what I'm saying?

Thanks for the responses so far,
Craig
 
I don't think the krks are cheap. Maybe you could take a look at those small studiophiles. Some people here seem to like them.... I don't, but maybe they work for you.
 
You can't go wrong @ $150 purchasing a pair of Tannoy Proto-J's.
 
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