Mackie SRM150 5.25" Active Speaker (Black)

I use this as my personal monitor

this is an impressive little music box. very powerful for it's size. has a clean sound and is versatile. Nice selection of inputs and outputs.

I use 2 of them as hot spots. They work perfectly well together as a small PA also.

This item was purchased for a church piano monitor to replace an older Galaxy Audio Hotspot, and it sounds a lot better. The range of this speaker does a good job for personal monitoring, and it has plenty of power to get loud. We purchased the extended warranty after reading some information about sketchy reliability, but so far have not needed the coverage. The build quality seems solid, but ours is permanently installed and will not be moved often.

I just got this little unit to give me better feedback while singing and playing piano in a jazz sextet. I plop it on top of the baby grand right in front of me and turn it a bit when the drummer is singing next to me. I love its sturdy construction, light weight, and full, rich sound output.

I bought this speaker new from GC late 2014, early 2015. The thing has been awesome up until about 3 months ago (Sept 2016). The sound is crisp, loud, and cuts through even in a full band setting - it is perfect monitor. It also weighs like 10 pounds, if that, so it really is the perfect monitor! There's already enough heavy stuff to deal with! I never really understood the value of a good monitor until I got this. I used it as a monitor in an acoustic duo setting which was fantastic. And then I moved into a full band setting with drums and bass and it worked there as well. Then, one day (at practice fortunately) it just cut out. The thing I tip my hat to Mackie for is that they include a 3-year warranty. There was a place local here in NJ, and the tech told me the preamps go in them a little too often. Lo and behold, that's what it was. He replaced it and had it back to me next day - awesome service. So I get it back and it is working through 2 practice sessions. We get to gig day, I hook it up and it works for about 30 seconds and now the blue light is fading in and out and there is absolutely no audio. Like a power surge, but I use a power conditioner (Furman) to ensure that kind of stuff doesn't happen. So now it is down again and I'm taking it back again to that awesome company to fix it (seems like a different issue now). But, do you think I can trust this thing live again? Heck no. I have heard wonderful things about the Behringer speaker similar to this one, so I think I'll try that. It is a shame. I'll also be writing Mackie as this speaker is awesome but not being able to hold up (was not abusing or overloading it) under normal (but not very often) usage is just unacceptable. So, bottom line - great sound from a little speaker - but be very wary.