Ok, jokes aside now.
I own the 8.2A's, which are okay. There are a lot of things I don't like about them. You really have to learn them. The bass is wooly and loose and has a really unnatural hump centred around 116Hz. The high-end is soft and sweet, too much so for mixing. Doesn't extend particularily high, and definitely not very low. Midrange is also very sweet sounding, but lacks detail and seperation. Slight changes of levels, reverb, compression, and EQ changes are very difficult if not impossible to hear. There are other monitors in the same price range that do these things far better.
All of these are qualities that aren't paricularily good for monitoring. Strangely though, they're pleasant to mix on and translate reasonably well, maybe better than most others - so long as you have several "B" references. You really have to learn the monitors, too, and know that you have to shoot for something that isn't just sounding good (because most things do on these) but really sounds exceptional. And this is hard when you can't hear what your changes are doing. But it can be worth it, if you're willing to spend the time and effort. I guess that's the trade-off for the money you spend.
I've heard the Mackies a couple times and never liked them at all. The mids are weird and the bass is unnaturally big but loose. Highs are a little hard. For this kind of "Genelec-ish sound" I prefer the much cheaper Yorkville YSM1P's, which are very detailed and have pretty nice mids and an exceptional low-end. The highs extend way up and are very fast/detailed, which means reverb and sibilance strike at you. They're a little fatuiging though, and bright, which you have to compensate for.
I keep thinking that with a really high-end tweeter, the yorkies could really be something exceptional. I might mod mine soon.
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