Tannoy nearfield active monitors. Let’s face it churning through documentation or code, can sometimes be mind numbing, no matter how much delegation you do you still have to deal with it and the only way to keep your mind in check, and sometimes to speed things along is to be bathed in your favourite music.

Now I have a penchant for all things musical, whilst I don’t spend 40k on audio gear at home, I also can’t stomach the $50 computer speakers. A previous fan of Klipsch systems I decided it was time to step up the game. Enter these bad boys. “Nearfield active monitors” = speakers designed to be on a studio recording desk, up close to your ears versus across the living room floor. As they’re monitors they’re designed to be very neutral and flat sounding, allowing the detail of the music to present itself, not be coloured like most residential systems. So you won’t have bass or mid range heavy music. To my ears, at low volumes everything is very crisp, tonnes of detail I’ve picked things I’ve only heard with Sennheisers on my head.

All this comes at a cost, these clock in at $800 retail CAD, before taxes, if you know where to look. However eBay came to the rescue and I found a pair and won the auction for under half that, now they’re gracing my desk getting burned in.

Nice. (with a capital N). Not Pants.