[cporro]

mackie hr842 are my primary monitors but was going to pick up some
avantone mixcubes as secondaries.

turns out no one has the active cubes...but i can probably find a
passive pair (or maybe a single one). thing is i know very little
about pairing amps with speakers.

there seem to be 2 schools of thought on this. you want the thing to
sound real world or bad so any amp is fine. and it's worth getting a
nice amp for better monitoring and ease of listening.

i don't plan on using the mixcubes for a real world check...i plan on
doing a lot of mixing on them.

any opinions on this one from people who have tried out a few things?
i've seen the bryston 2bs mentioned, the crown d75 but i really know
little about power amps.

i was thinking something around $200 that way the passives + amp would
cost the same as the actives i had budgeted for.

and how come there isn't a single thread on the avantone mixcubes?