DM40

They're experts at spending money, but they're also experts at finding improvement for free. I have some crappy Pioneer DM-40 near field monitors, having the tweeters at ear height and both pointed properly at my listening position is genuinely a huge improvement. I use them at my DJ setup and they

Just get some foam isolation pads (the big ones that cover the whole footprint of the speaker), I assume they all work about the same. Also though, Pioneer markets all of their speakers as "monitors", but in my experience they're never anywhere near flat enough to be considered a monitor, instead tr

My AE-5 Pure Plus Edition did this under Linux Mint and I thought it had to do with Linux but it ended up being my powered speakers themselves lol Pioneer DM-40. I’ve since replaced them with passive Wharfedale Diamond 11.0 speakers and a Fosi Audio V3 amp. Haven’t had a problem since.

My Pioneer DM-40's also hiss all the time, as far as I'm aware most Pioneer speakers do and it isn't limited to Pioneer either, I know Adam's hiss pretty bad too. Just gonna wait until I'm old enough that the hissing is out of my range of hearing, shouldn't be too long now!