Looking at the Yamaha Msp5's or the Hs7's/5's. Any other suggestions?

 

What are your primary monitors? What do you produce?
In principle, the second pair should be different to the primary ones.
i.e. If you're commercially proned, and you have event opals or some other pro-monitors, you could use a pair of hi-fi speakers, even cheap desktop speakers, to see how things translate to the average ituner outthere. If you produce for a soundsystem for instance and already have good monitors get a mono speaker... they have a name forgot right now...
...And so on, each situation requires a different approach.

 

I produce Hip Hop , Dance and R&B and my primary monitors are a dark sounding pair of full range speakers that shall remain unnamed,due to the fact that i broke the cardinal rule and purchased without demoing them first.

 

I think you just answered your question. Demo.
Also, why not keep your current speakers as secondaries and save a bit more for nice primary monitors

 

My primary monitors are 7" so if I go 7" or 8" I'd still wouldn't have that tight 5 to 6.5" midrange focus.
unless I up the budget to 1800 to 2500 dollars , Focal Cms 65, Unity Audio The Rock MkII, Eve Audio SC305, Adam A77x
And I still can't Demo the Rocks, Adam's only (A7x's) or Eve's only (SC205's) have to imagine what the latter two sound like in 3way.

 

If you want something really amazing on a budget I´ll suggest PreSonus Eris E5!!!

HAve a pair infront of me right now and they sound great and works perfect as my secondary monitors!

 

The Yamaha HS5's look harmless enough and are cheap, so they would be my choice.

 

Well for mid range to high freq stuff I recommend the HS5s from Yamaha if you're on budget and still want quality. With a decently treated room you'll be amazed of what they can reveal. Nasty little bitches they are! And yes... use them as primaries and switch to the others for bass checks and overall assessments.
Also use (decent) headphones and switch to mono to check phase issues You'd be cool with that.

 

What onhappin said. Focals CMS would also be a great choice, as well as Neumann KH120 or Equator D5 if you can get them somehow. People also often forget how great Blue Sky monitors are, even the cheapest model like MediaDesk. I would rather have ProDesk, though, as my golden rule is "never buy the cheapest model but neither the most expensive". ;)

 

I went on and bought the HS8's a couple of months ago, and they are absolutely the best thing you can buy at that price range. There is nothing for flatter at that price, and most importantly they are honest. Not fatigue-ing as i'm using them as my main audio reproduction audio (youtube, listening to music, etc.) Low end is very good, but if you want the sub-sonic range <~37hz you'll need a sub-woofer (HS8S or something) (since you are an rnb/hip-hop producer). I literally find detail in songs i never heard before. If it doesn't sound good here, it will probably don't sound good anywhere. I think it's just very good showing mistakes in mixes, although if you want something better (in terms of pure quality) save your money. There are people modding them (plus selling modified ones, with removed limiter, better op-amps, and capacitors) but still the stock ones are a good option. Also my friend went on and bought HS7's after hearing mine for a single time. You just sacrifice the low-end. Go to yamahas site and download the manual (it has all the specs and graphs). The only note i can give you is that the HS8
s are huge (17.3" laptop, 24" lcd, 61-key impulse): http://i.imgur.com/wXRj203.jpg