Transparent One Encore Plus

Tons of ways to go. Second going to r/BudgetAudiophile as well if you want to keep the cost reasonable, people in here tend to be a bit more on the affluent and/or dedicated side. But assuming you don't want the cheapest crap imaginable and are willing to be in the thousand buck ballpark or so; http

Looks phenomenal 👌 and love almost everything about it. I do wonder one thing, and not just with your setup but most ppls setups. I see so much attention to detail in so many incredible setups like yours, but with audio being almost an afterthought. I totally get having to make sacrifices in certain

For a desktop I'd get a pair of Vanatoo Transparent One Encore Plus powered speakers. They are under your budget but sound great and produce a surprising amount of base. Good luck!

You would need to evaluate the sound yourself. We can’t say/tell you if you are going to like the sound or not. Of course the Vanatoo are a powered speaker option. Though, you could go for neutral sounding active studio monitors (kind of like the JBL you mentioned). There’s nothing inherently “more

If you can stretch your budget to $1250, then there are the excellent Genelec 8020D. (The smallest Genelec 8010A (ASR review) are in your budget, but the trade off for less low end reach (etc.) is fairly large against the 8020D.) In your budget, you could also look at other active studio monitors li