hmm, while I'd love to try to get an old amp and some passive monitors, I just don't see myself having the $ to do it before I start this studio project.
I'm gonna try and find the manuals for my dads' technics sb-2685 speakers (they have a frequency chart of some kind with a whole bunch of specs on the front of the speakers but I can't read em because of that soft black covering, I want to take a close-up pic and have someone decipher those numbers for me). He bought them like, in the late 80's, but I know he payed a pretty penny for them and they have to be considered high end consumer gear, they definitely sound better than my $20 computer speakers.
damn, what a predicament. I just wanna hear my music they way it was recorded!!!
ps, numbers for the technics coming soon...