Fwiw, I don’t think anyone should feel bad about their Rockit monitors and Scarlett interfaces…
Me neither, I’ve owned both. I would say that if a person can, go and test out a few monitors side-by-side. Many of the bigger music stores offer that, and what people might find is that there are drastic differences in sound quality between some of these monitors. If all a person has ever heard are Rokits, and you are happy with them. That’s great! But, try pumping the same mix through a pair of higher end monitors and they would likely instantly start gassing for them.
Having heard both the lower and higher quality monitors, and knowing that there’s nothing wrong with Cygnus, or even Quantum Fractal code, or the hardware which delivers it, I can say that as happy as we are with the gear we sometimes have, some of the lower end monitors don’t do either code justice. The difference between the Rokits and the A7Xs (for example), is the difference between looking through a clean and dirty window, and that difference only becomes evident when you compare them both.
At the time, I remember being happy with the BOSS GT6, and before that, the Digitech RP1 …but, at that time, that happiness was only born from the fact I had never heard an AX8, AXE FX III, or the FM3..since they share much the same code.
For as much as we sometimes happily fork-over for a guitar, the resulting sound it makes sometimes can take a back-seat. I have been guilty of that mentality, myself.