I haven't bought studio monitors yet, but I've only really just started to setup a home studio. For years, I just didn't have the space. Now that I have space I'm shopping around for a set of monitors. Personally, I've been looking at getting the Yamaha HS5 monitors. They're well respected and quite a bit smaller which is nice for what I'm trying to build / setup. I've heard great things about the HS8s too.