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James Lehmann · 7th November 2006

We're talking active, right?

The Blue Sky ProDesks come in around $1,200 list, but I reckon you might able to find a street price of a grand, meaning if you could top your budget up with another $200 from somewhere you'd be scoring some seriously good monitors with a genuine bottom end that most nearfields can't get anywhere near. As far as I know I have written the most detailed user review of the ProDesks you'll find anywhere on the web, and remember it's written voluntarily by an actual customer as opposed to a magazine or site reviewer. Since I wrote the review Blue Sky have upgraded the ProDesk SAT 5 to a MkII version (more details here) so a good thing just got even better![/QUOTE]

Sweetwater seem to have the Dynaudio BM5A's for under a grand too which would be well worth auditioning, but I'd take the ProDesks in a heartbeat over these and even the more expensive BM6A's.

If your budget is well and truly maxed out then I'd certainly check out the Blue Sky MediaDesks (not heard these myself but based on what I think of the ProDesks...) and I do like the Reveals which pack a lot of punch for the money.

7th November 2006	#4
James Lehmann Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Europe Posts: 2,428	We're talking active, right? The Blue Sky ProDesks come in around $1,200 list, but I reckon you might able to find a street price of a grand, meaning if you could top your budget up with another $200 from somewhere you'd be scoring some seriously good monitors with a genuine bottom end that most nearfields can't get anywhere near. As far as I know I have written the most detailed user review of the ProDesks you'll find anywhere on the web, and remember it's written voluntarily by an actual customer as opposed to a magazine or site reviewer. Since I wrote the review Blue Sky have upgraded the ProDesk SAT 5 to a MkII version (more details here) so a good thing just got even better![/QUOTE] Sweetwater seem to have the Dynaudio BM5A's for under a grand too which would be well worth auditioning, but I'd take the ProDesks in a heartbeat over these and even the more expensive BM6A's. If your budget is well and truly maxed out then I'd certainly check out the Blue Sky MediaDesks (not heard these myself but based on what I think of the ProDesks...) and I do like the Reveals which pack a lot of punch for the money. __________________ James Lehmann Voice-Over Artist - Project Studio Jockey www.jameslehmann.net · Use your real name - keep Gearslutz authoritative, accountable and courteous. · Stop the superlatives madness - just say no to gear threads with the word 'best' in the title. · Words or WAVs? The former are interesting, the latter are convincing.