[BoingBoomTschak]

I think it's still worth going down the rabbit hole but only when 1) You know you're gonna use the thing a lot and for a long time and 2) You have some real, objective ways (i.e. beyond the very influenceable MOS) of measuring a real, humanly perceivable difference.

This is how I became quite learned in sound reproduction (incl. acoustics and psychoacoustics) then bought Genelec loudspeakers, for example. But I don't care about finding Samsung B-dies (I think?) for my RAM.

[seec]

Genelecs are a no brainer if you have the money (the small ones are not too expensive but if you want power, wallet will get hurt a lot).

It's crazy how good those speakers sound for how small they are. And extremely well built of course, the aluminium casting was a very good decision, albeit an expensive one of course.

[BoingBoomTschak]

For nearfield, I think so; the 8341A is basically unbeatable there. But it still suffers from three problems (even more in midfield): the ridiculous price of their subwoofers, the way too primitive handling of multi-sub by GLM and the eye-watering price of the W371A compared to other fully cardioid solutions (D&D 8C, AsciLab BX8C); I'm also skeptical of the (unpublished) directivity matching of the combination.

Still, Genelec's legendary reliability and GLM are worth it.