I currently have Presonus Eris 4.5 monitors. They are decent for the money but not very revealing for mixing.
I only have a small bedroom for music, currently untreated, but I’m going to get some reasonable budget acoustic panels (100mm GIK B4) for the first reflection points and corner bass traps to make the room a bit better.
At the same time the plan is to upgrade the monitors. I think for the room probably around 5inch.
Looking at the following:-
Focal Alpha 50
Adam T5V
Kali LP6
Another options id adding a sub to the Presonus but I think that will cause as many issues as it solves in a small room.
The Eris don’t go down low enough so I definitely need better bass extension, but I’m not mixing EDM so don’t need massive lows.
Genelec would be great but probably too pricey as I think it would be 8030’s I would be wanting. Same goes for Neuman and Eve options around that size. I could perhaps stretch to the KH80’s but to make full use of them I’d need the measurement mic which takes them over a grand and they are only 4 inch woofers. That said they do extend much lower than the Presonus (which you would expect considering the price difference).
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I don’t necessarily need extended bass, just something with more extension than the 70hz of the 4.5’s.
Of the three choices you put up, I'd go with the LP6 mk 2. I wasn't that impressed by the Alphas when I had them. If you want even better bass, the Kali IN-5 monitors are superb. I use mine for everything, guitars to normal viewing through a laptop. I was watching old cricket footage from the 1999 World Cup today whilst dark clouds gathered overhead outside. I kept hearing rumbling and muted the volume. Duh, it was actually rumbling from the video footage, not outside. The detail on there really is something else in that price bracket.
The white ones look cool. They look quite big but, the front porting over the Adam probably mean they don’t take up massively more space.