Ive heard (only for a short period) the nEar and I liked them. The behringers I find difficult.

Sidhu

I've heard good about the nEAR 05's, but never heard them myself. Although Behringer is a much hated company, I ended up taking home a couple of their B2030A's above Tapco S5, M-Audio BX5, Alesis M1 and Yamaha MSP6 because I found them more powerful, linear and comfortable to listen to. The quality you get pretty much equals what you pay for, so I believe it comes down to preference - and that's not something you can ask others about.

I have good experience with my Behringer monitors, and I've heard awesome mixes done on them. But test the monitors in your music store - bring some CDs you know well, preferably also some classical music in order to spot any peaks (like hyped top, boomy bottom, etc), and make your choice!

I had a chance to briefly hear the Behringers against my Tannoys the other day and I can say the Behringers do not sound anything like the Genelecs they are a knock off of .... in comparison to my Tannoy System 12 DMT's, I thought the Behringers were "wooly" sounding.

We're also in an entirely different price range there, so it's not really a fair comparasion. If I'm not entirely wrong I think Behringer also had Mackie in mind when designing their Truth monitors - or perhaps some clever combination? Don't know, all I can tell is they don't sound like the Genelec 1031s.