At the same price you can get a pair of Yamaha HS7 or even 8. Depends on what you use it for. Yamaha's sound is really cool, it's flat. Which means, if your music sounds good at Yamaha, it will sound good everywhere (almost We're using the previous generation, HS80M. Absolutely satisfied.

You can even notice some old NS10 in a lot of professional studio, most of them are used just to check the sound.

Hope it helps.

In as small amount of words possible, Sidechain is the process of using the output of one track to control the action of a compressor on a completely different track.

The objective of sending everything to a reverb bus to add 'glue' is really to make everything sound like it's been recorded in the same room.

I send everything at different levels to a reverb buss track, then move the overall volume of the reverb buss level up or down depending on how much overall 'room' sound I want to hear in my mix. There is an EQ after the reverb on this buss also that gets rid of the low end sound of the reverb, and some of the highs too.

It's a concept that works well for me. Just don't add too much room reverb on things like your Kick - it sounds a little weird IMO.