S8M's
This may not be a timely reply to your query but here goes. I've owned a pair of S8M's for about 10 years and for the money they work well enough (for the money). But if you are looking for a pair of monitors that will give you good all around frequency response without resorting to using sub-woofers these speakers aren't it, they just can't handle low frequencies very well but sound fine when it comes to mid-range and high frequency information. FOR THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY I don't know that you can get much better. I just made a cursory glance to see how much a pair of used ones cost to guage what it would cost to replace one that was just damaged by house movers, I found a pair advertised at $99 !.