Some guys take the monitor thing way too far, and have had 20 monitors over the course of owning the axe. All the time wasted could be better spent playing. I remember tons of "flavor of the month" monitors over the years, cant count how much money some dudes must have spent. shut up and play yer guitar.
next year the CLR will be old and busted.
All the time you use posting about other people wasting time with monitors instead of playing - could be spend playing (just saying), so consider taking your own advice and shut up and play yer guitar - Frank will be proud of you.
The CLR's have gone way beyond what is a honeymoon or flavor of the month period - and they are still a or (to me anyway) THE top candidate unless you have a 3,500 $ pr wedge budget and for some reason don't want a CLR.
I've only owned two different monitors for the Axe - the RCF NX-10 SMA's and the CLR's.
I had the RCF's first and got those for small gigs, jams, rehearsal and so on, and that got me by, but I always considered them good for the money and capable of getting the job done, but I never thought that they were a match for the pro wedge we had on the bigger productions.
When I got to try the CLRs they completely destroyed the RCF's on all points and I had to get them. The CLRs match the pro wedges form the industry standard "name" brands at a much lower price point, and they are insanely good value for money.
There are two reasons that I've played many monitors
1) I make my living and provide for my family playing guitar, that means that I play a lot of different stages with a lot of different monitors including all the big household names in the industry. So not time wasted, but time spend playing guitar.
2) when it comes to spending my own money I wan't to be sure that I get the best solution that I can for my money, so I tried all the better consumer grade monitors that I could get my hands on to see if there were any "sleepers" that would allow me to spend less than on the CLR. I didn't find any.