Active Monitors

[dan the acid man]

putting speakers on the wall is the worst thing you can do, imo. personally, i would put them as far from wall as possible,.

yep, but if you have to, then go for front ported ones like the alesis or fostex pm's.

if i was going for a budget active monitor for mixing i'd go for fostex pm1's or pm0.5's.

You'd probably have to pick the pm1's up secondhand to reach your budget.