And pricing is around $750 EACH, so unless you know of a great sale, these are going to blow your $1000 budget. Looks like you might want to make some distance between them and your ears due to the dispersion baffle they use. Haven't heard them myself but the Polk LSiM703 seems an excellent speaker as reviewed and measured by Stereophile. The Rokits do benefit quite a bit from DSP correction, you might be shocked how much. deep bass for explosions, sub bass rumble and the like, sure to annoy anyone living below you. I would keep the Rokits solely for mixing since you are already used to them, but If you want to save some money and don't want to change anything else, you can pair the 8s with a decent subwoofer to move into home theater sound, i.e. The early generations of Rokit 8s were OK and the Gen 3s are really pretty good for low budget monitors. You can correct any speaker to have a flat response and good timing from multiple speakers with a room correction/DSP system like Audessey MultEQ XT. Can still be accurate but you will be better able to pick up vocals range frequencies and enjoy the explosions viscerally from a further seating distance and a much wider sweetspot. Home theater speakers tend to have somewhat of a V shaped frequency emphasis, more treble and bass. And anyone sitting outside the very narrow sweetspot will be losing a lot of the audio frequency range as they do tend to roll off the further off the sweetspot you are. Great for mixing but maybe not that interesting to listen to movies or play games. Most are designed for nearfield listening where the sweet spot is focused by angling in the monitors and listening only a few feet from them. Studio monitors are tuned to have a linear, or flat, frequency response.
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