I used to be an audio engineer and I used to design large sound systems, but I have been out of that business for about 7 years so I asked around to my friends from college that work in or own successful recording studios and asked them what they used for an accurate near field reference monitor and a couple of them recommended the Genelec 8030A.
In the past 7 or 8 years the DSLR sensor technology has improved a ton, but I would guess that speaker technology has not improved hardly at all. In all the videos you have watched in my office you have seen my KEF Q30 (1993-96) which are about 18 years old and I love them. When I purchased them I compared them to a ton of speakers at the time they beat out everything including ones that where 3 times the price. [read]