Studio monitors for home recording

[Drew Stephenson]

My take would be to go with the 3.5s. They'll give you the stereo information you need and will help with reverb judgement (in my experience).
Use your headphones for assessing low end.
Use any money saved to put towards future purchases of:
- audio correction software like Sonarworks for your headphones. Or,
- acoustic treatment. Or,
- a couple of mic stands and some cheap winter duvets to use as impromptu (but very effective) acoustic treatment.

Or just buy a beer and enjoy listening to your new speakers.

[Sam Spoons]

My take would be to go with the 3.5s. They'll give you the stereo information you need and will help with reverb judgement (in my experience).
Use your headphones for assessing low end.
Use any money saved to put towards future purchases of:
- acoustic treatment. Or,
- acoustic treatment. Or,
- acoustic treatment.

Or just buy acoustic treatment and enjoy listening to your new speakers.

FTFY

[notuno]

My take would be to go with the 3.5s. They'll give you the stereo information you need and will help with reverb judgement (in my experience).
Use your headphones for assessing low end.
Use any money saved to put towards future purchases of:
- acoustic treatment. Or,
- acoustic treatment. Or,
- acoustic treatment.

Or just buy acoustic treatment and enjoy listening to your new speakers.

FTFY

Thanks both, this was helpful. I'll go for the 3.5, and use the difference for a couple of panels for now, plus put in the necessary extra money for speaker stands and TRS cables. I hadn't thought of a duvet, I'll hang one to the doors of the cabinet 1.5m behind my chair and see what happens. Then I'll get a beer.

[Sam Spoons]

You never miss what you haven't had but once you hear the difference even a little acoustic treatment makes to your room there's no going back, you'll never want to record or mix in an untreated room again......

Enjoy the beer

[Mike Stranks]

My room in our previous house had been fitted with various bits and pieces of treatment over the years.

TBH I wasn't sure if it was doing too much... then I took it all down in preparation for our move. The room then sounded... horrible...

[notuno]

Quick update: after two months of using the Eris 3.5 with the Scarlett 2i2, I'm quite happy with them. The only problem is the aux input on the front of the speakers, that is horribly noisy no matter what I connect to it, anyway a minor problem since I don't plan to use them that way.