I too, like José, value the opinions of both Uncle Dave and Jim Eshelman; it's too bad that Jim decided to delete his own threads and, very likely, quit this Forum for the second time. This is -to me- an attitude difficult to understand: you cannot expect that everybody agrees with you and -if they don't- go away slamming the door and maybe thinking "Geez, what a bunch of incompetent idiots!"
Jim, if you are reading this, please note that I tend to agree more with YOUR point of view: as you know, I own three keyboards, and only one of them (the VA7) has onboard speakers; in Uncle Dave's own words, the VA7 has excellent speakers, yet I find them hard to accept for my tastes, maybe because I don't sing (and I mean it!), so the keyboard for me is more than a backing tool. For this reasons, two months ago I purchased a Syrincs M3 monitor system; I did this without having ever heard or seen them, just because Roel expressed a very positive opinion about them (I trust Roel's opinion on technical issues a lot). I had to buy them from this german online shop, because they are not even available in Italy:
http://www.musik-service.de/ProduX/Recording/Monitore/Syrincs_M3_Monitor_System_mit_Woofer.htm

Well, I am more than glad that I did it; they are small (19 kg overall), powerful (68 W the subwoofer and 38 W x 2 the satellites) and -most important of all- they have a great frequency curve. I would go on and dare to say that they could almost be labeled as an Hi-Fi system. I am using them as a monitor system in my home studio and for the first time I have realized mistakes I had been making on my old mixdowns, done with my PC Cambridge Soundworks system 5.1. And they are not only small, clean and powerful (with a deep, DRY bass); they are also very good looking; they come in four different colors (black, red, blue, and grey); I did choose the "all black" finishing and -even from this point of view- I think that they could be placed in every living room (even in a millionaire's house) and be mistaken for a small Hi-Fi system.
I have already used them in a party given by one of my friends in a large living room and all were pleasantly surprised by the amount of clean sound they were able to deliver, without any listening fatigue (which usually is due to distortion, even if you don't consciously realize its presence).
Of course, this is just my personal point of view and I have no pretension to say the "final and ultimate" word on this subject...