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There are active monitors for nearfield and for full field use. Of the
latter, you may audition them to see if they are to your "taste", but
if you want to listen to the music as its producers intended using the
speaker they mixed down on is usually the closest way to go. On the
other hand if you want "my-fi", as long as you are honest get whatever
you want.

The producers did not intend that you hear the sound the way it was mixed
down.
The mix is always a compromise, and monitors are made for best judgment of
that compromise, not listening pleasure.
I do not believe that the best speakers today are active loudspeakers.
The principle of combining speaker and amplification is a good one, but it
implies nothing about the result.