I've tried all kinds of speakers, mixers and placed them side-by-side. The product I am most impressed by his the QSC K series speakers of which I bought three QSC K10's. On small gigs I just use one of them. And with my band are use all three and one in the center for a monitor. The best mixer I have found is the matching QSC multi mix mixer. It's particularly awesome and that I can record direct outs on each channel to a separate track on a SSD Drive. Afterwords I take it back home and mixed directly to a stereo file and I've got a 96K 32-bit recording which sounds just wonderful.