Se electronics the egg?

Depends on your budget - they're not cheap, but they got a good review from SOS

Currently testing the Focal Solo 6 BE.

Amazing low end from a 6.5 inch bass unit, very controlled.

Great transients and stereo image.

Testing this pair over the weekend, genelec 8040A up next, still very curious to hear how the eggs hold up, It's an interesting concept at least.

I ruled out the Adam A8X, sounds more like a hifi speaker to me.

Haven't heard the eggs. My instinct is to be dubious of expensive gear that looks stylish - I think of it as the Bang & Olufsen Effect. How much of the price is the cost of looking cool? Still, the design concept seems sound.

Of the manufacturers listed, I liked the sound of the Focals best. I sat down at their booth at NAMM just because my feet hurt from walking, but ended up staying for half an hour just to listen to those luscious-sounding speakers. The questions I have are twofold: first, are they luscious enough to justify the price, and second, is luscious really what you're after in a reference monitor?

Genelecs, bleh. Overpriced, IMO, at least in this country. When I bought my ADAMs I A/B'd them against comparable Genelecs and found the ADAMs to have better detail at a lower price. (Still, aren't Genelecs manufactured in Denmark? That might be a factor, if nothing else at least in reduced shipping charges!)

ADAM has experienced some manufacturing problems over the years, resulting in blown amplifiers and tweeters, and noisy amps out of the box. I did not experience this myself, and suspect it's a result of them outsourcing their lower-end products to China. It may not be a concern in their German-made products. OTOH, it may have something to do with the recent retirement of their principle engineer.

Done testing monitors, Focals won out no question.

Getting new monitors prompted me to get my room acoustics fixed, I thought it was a shame having them and then ruin most of it by an untreated room.

Got first reflections under control with some Primacoustic foam, built a couple large broadband/lowband absorbers for bass response using rockwools most dense "terrain" bats (90kg/m3) and a cloud above my listening position using "a" bats, room sounds SO much better now, not dead, just very controlled.

I built the broadband absorbers on wheels so I can move them for a nice vocal/percussion booth.

Building these things was surprisingly easy, I used Ikea "Kilby" bookshelfs for the frame (Cheaper than buying the wood and making the frame myself) took only about an hour or so, pr piece. Already had a bunch of cotton fabric for covering them.

Should have gotten this room treated a long time ago, it's uncanny how much of a difference this made, even listening to my NS10s

The smartest thing you have done is to keep the NS10's. The ideal combination is a pair of nice monitors and NS10's.  Your mix will translate very well as long as you check it continually on the NS10's. The idea is you get you mix sounding great on your normal speakers and then switch over and have a good listen again. You will want to make a few adjustments to get the NS10's sounding good. Then when you go back you will find the other speakers are also sounding still OK which now means you have satisfied both instead of one set of speakers.

Make sure you make the NS10's a regular check operation when mixing.

Congratulations! I'm officially full of envy!

So did you try The Egg? Your impressions?

  Heard it in the shop, enough to know it wasn't my thing even though the room wasn't ideal. Nothing bad, just hmm.. a bit sterile is the only word I can come up with, and I have my NS10s for that. 

Also upon further reading there's a few things that put me off. They are matched pairs with special cabling, that makes me nervous, can't replace speaker units in case something bad happens, have to send everything in and get new matched pairs.