My monitors that I have known and loved for 10+ years are "on their way out."

Time to select the perfect replacements and then spend the time and effort to get to know them intimately.

I'm looking to replace a Bose L1 system (too fragile) with a small, portable, virtually indestructible, PA that is good enough quality to cover acoustic music, and also to cover just vocals in a pub gig situation.

I'm also looking for small, ideally active, monitor speakers.

I'm looking for the second-best-of-the-best.

Hi! I've just gotten into recording recently. I'm running a 2.53 Ghz Celeron, 256 megs RAM (need more, but it works!), using a Creative Soundblaster external USB device to get audio into my PC. Actually, I've got my old Tascam 424 mkIII as a pre-amp (lol), going from the RCA line outs on that into the SB device.