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Choosing a new pair of studio monitors for your control room can easily turn into a struggle. I don't think there's any other piece of studio equipment that can generate such a love/hate relationship. While it's possible to track on any speaker system (including headphones), it's mixing (or balancing, as they say in the UK) where any speaker deficiencies will come to light.
I tracked and mixed with these small, near field studio monitors from E-mu in my studio for three weeks, recording a wide variety of bands, from punk rock to folk rock, and although they're a wee bit bass- shy, I found mixing on them a real pleasure.
Housed in an attractive, hefty cabinet and sporting a nice, bright blue power light (that flashes red when overloaded), the PM5s are bi-amped with Class A 40w/40w amplifiers. The relatively small woofer size (5") is helped by the ported cabinets to extend the usable bass range. XLR/TRS balanced and RCA unbalanced...