how about these?
mackie cr5xbt,jbl 104,krk rokit 5 g4,m audio bx5 d3,alesis elevate 5 mkii

 

any valuable gem in the 300$ range? nothing?

 

At this price point, whichever size Kali’s you can afford are prob your best bet.

Yamaha hs5’s should be roughly in budget too, esp if you can buy used.

Please don’t buy Rokits

 

Everything I found from those two brands is pricy
rokit reaction :

 

I don't know your prices sorry, they seem to differ vastly from ours. But what I can advise is to take a look in here https://pierreaubert.github.io/spinorama/ and search after best tonality for your price range. But you'll have to google the price on your own.

 

Thank you very much man,
very useful

 

ESI nEar 05 - 95 EUR
https://www.esi-audio.com/products/aktiv05/
www.thomann.de/de/esi_aktiv_05.htm

Presonus Eris 3.5 Review

 

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i searched and found :
1- jbl lsr305 (not exist)
2-m audio bx5 d3

 

Per
- attractive design
- low price Acoustic Filter and Alignment LED
- noisy

cons
- Deep bass a bit weak
- uneven frequency
- response no soft highs

Source: www.bonedo.de/artikel/m-audio-mx8-d3-und-mx5-d3-test/

 

Thank you dear BEAT16
unfortunately many brands and products are not available here and Every popular and high quality existing product is sold much more expensive than the world price (f...king thieves)

 

https://www-bonedo-de.translate.goo...l=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

 

Thanks

 

Not sure, why "noisy" should be a pro ('per'?)...

 

I only give the test result from the Bonedo website - here are the 2 links - one original in German and the other link is from "google translator!
Noisy as Loud! So the tester thinks they are loud, whatever he means by that?!


Source:
www.bonedo.de/artikel/m-audio-mx8-d3-und-mx5-d3-test/
https://www.bonedo.de/artikel/m-audio-mx8-d3-und-mx5-d3-test/

 

$300 is a tough one. Especially without being able to listen first. If all else fails, my advice...

Once upon a time I spent some time in a "shithole of a country" for an extended DJ residency and needed some speakers on the cheap for demos listening and producing while there. There were no proper studio/music gear stores around. There were lots of mom and pop stereo shops. Go to a home stereo shop (armed with music you know inside and out that is produced amazingly) and listen to all of the speakers they have. Choose the ones with the best full range sound to your ears. Learn your speakers. Test your mixes and adjust accordingly.

I ended up liking the mixes I did on those speakers so much so that I shipped them home afterwards for use in my home studio.

 

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Rokits will be alright, especially g4... can't believe some id..ts are saying they are bad yet proposing fucking green mackies which look like they were designed for 47 chromosomes music producers or yamahas hs5 which have so little bass even your neighbours will ask you to buy subwoofer

 

I tested many low-to-mid price ($250 to $1500+ per pair) monitors, namely: various Adams, Mackies, JBL's, M-Audio's, Behringers, Focals, Alesis, Blue Sky, APS, Presonus etc. etc. I tested them IN USE, in my home studio.
In the price range of $250-$750 per pair nothing beats JBL LSR305. I still have and use the first version. The MkII is a bit brighter, but still very good. I recommend them.
Actually, the engineeres who designed them, left JBL and established their own company: Kali Audio. So you could also take a look at Kali LP-6.

 

Given the size of the room, and you intend to use them for mixing and mastering.. you should "wait" until you have more than $300 to spend on a pair of monitors. You are better off sticking to the monitors or headphones you are using now, and keep your balance at +300 towards some new monitors later. The reason being.. you can spend $300 on some cheap monitors today.. and have buyer's remorse the second you realize they aren't allowing you to make "confident" mixing/mastering decisions.

If you can't fight the urge.. just wait until you have $400-500 and get some cheap 8in monitors instead of 5's. It's better you at least get a broader listening range from the monitors you use.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LP8v2--kali-audio-lp-8-8-inch-powered-studio-monitor-black

If you can be more patient.. I would recommend these as a minimum for making the job easier.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Alpha80Evo--focal-alpha-80-evo-8-inch-powered-studio-monitor

 

years back original Eris E5 ended up as clear winner in that price range

those are all shit

only step up which makes sense is Kali Audio, but their original monitors have too much self noise to be at all usable in closer monitoring, and new ones are over your budget, even the cheapest LP-6 2nd wave is over your budget, so nothing to choose there;
for orchestral and cinematic music, you'll inevitably have to step up to some coaxial 3-way monitors like Kali IN-5 or IN-8 2nd wave, those are over twice the budget you have now though