Nearfield monitors for a small room

You are both absolutely right, and pretty much wrong. Everything Dan says about the distortion is absolutely true, but that silk pretty much dampens it , almost un noticeable, unless you have something with a world class tweeter next to them. It’s there but you won’t notice it much, maybe 1% more than if you compared an un-doped silk dome compared to a doped version ( how do you think silk domes keep their shape).

Ive heard good things about those pioneers but never tried them.

I have the passive LS50’s with a JW modded Adcom amp…zero complaints. It took me a long time to realize how my brain likes to listen to music, wish I would’ve experimented with passive monitors along time ago.

They're pretty small in size (quite heavy though) and I use them in a room that's roughly 15x12 just fine.

Genelec 8351B

No prob.
Hope you'll find a suitable monitor for your space.

They make a passive wired version. Pretty sure that’s the one people are using in the studio. I have an older pair of floorstanding kefs in my living room. They have a similar mid driver/tweeter setup. Listening to my mixes on them can be really eye opening. They are very revealing. If I ever want to swap out my scm12’s, those lsr50’s are one of the speakers I really want to try out in my room.

Yup! I don't want to jynx it, but that thing has been rock solid.

I was pretty anti DSP correction, then I started using it, first on subs than full range.
Ill admit at first and even now many use DSP to cover poor driver choices and design choices, but man especially for small rooms you can sure solve a ton of issues.
In my worlds of speaker designer and builder some of the tools now at my disposal is insane! Now while some of these options are not going to be available in most pre conceived systems I’ll give you one of my favorite examples. 
Yesterday was spent at a new bar I’m helping with, first some DSP EQ & Bandpass filters were used on a Ceiling mounted Bose in an alcove, the reflections off the walls have been minimized so it sounds like the main room. The crossover to the subs have been tweaked so that the crossover is exactly at the natural roll off freq of the room, so we are using choice of sub and sub amp gain vs a bunch of EQ ( we used LF EQ to precisely remove some pesky resonances. We could do it all analog but that would take more gear more money and the password sure is harder to figure out than it is to remove a bunch of security covers,

That's great to hear.. Was considering the atc 12's but the atc amp sure ramps up the price fast.

For those of you who have used the Kef’s, did you have the mki’s or the newer metas? I have an opportunity to grab the mki’s at a decent price and I kind of want to give them a shot.

Has anyone tired these? As hyperbolic as dude is(and he is), I'm seriously contemplating these...., the Coax phase thing is very appealing to me considering i do a lot of old school OTB mixing where I need to lean and roll around to adjust stuff, the cost comparison to the near identical amphion's is unreal even though the cost is still very VERY steep considering you might not like them and they will have virtually ZERO resale value