In the process if tuning my room. Been reading all the good info on the site about acoustics and monitors. I'm sure you've all had this discussion (I did try searching some old threads first), but in your opinion...what's the general consensus on the HR 824's? I was able to pick up a pair of these for cheap, when they first came out. So these are all I've used.

I know, I know. It's like yelling fire in a theater, but please hear me out.

Has anyone had the chance to do AB comparison between these speakers ?
I made a few listenings with the 824's, but when I heard the Hafler I was truly amazed, I felt like the speakers had vanished and the music (and sound) was now revealed to me with better image, depth and clarity then ever before, detail without the harshness of cheaper monitors.

Well, you were all right.

By that I mean that the 824's, though nice sounding to track on, and usable to mix on, were funny sounding in the low end, which has made translation to other speakers a major hit and miss affair.

I was in a local studio not long ago and they had Mackie'824s. At first I thought they sounded really good, although they seemed to have an exagerated bottom end.
I asked the engineer about the sub, and he replied " There isn't any. We shut it off, there was to much bottom end." As it was, everything I was hearing was from the