I attended a very interesting BAS (Boston Audio Society) meeting on Sunday May 27th. It was a monitor speaker shootout where the “golden-ears” of the BAS compared and rated several small speakers, including some homemade speakers done by BAS members themselves. We level-matched all the speakers, and the entire group listened to one speaker at a time (in mono) and rated each one on a variety of classical, vocal, and jazz music for bass quality, midrange, treble and “overall” sound quality, which