Would be awesome if I could test multiple budget speakers, but I gues for that money its not included in the service 
My mom has the yamaha HS5’s as desktopspeakers, and by listening one of my mixes on those was kinda confronting. They seem to sound pretty honest. I can understand when people say, if you can make it sound interesting on those…
But I haven’t heard any relavent other one’s yet.
How do they sound ? Been intrigued by them for quite some time now. But not yet justifiable in my budget How flat are they ?
Ive put them up against the old NS 10’s powered by Bryston B2’s (A7’s set all flat) and its quite close without the 1kHz UGLY tone in there that the vintage Yamaha’s give you, plus a tad lower bass response. SO pretty fucking flat, and a nicely fast response, if that’s what you want… if not quite as fast and brutal as NS10’s
…but the A7 is obviously also front ported so you would expect more bass and maybe a tad of low mid smear, I’d imagine… but I honestly cant tell, the bottom end (50Hz+) sounds pretty good to me (while almost totally absent in NS10’s)
If you can cope with all of that… (NS10’s are not pretty in the slightest), but they are extremely honest in the midrange whilst still ugly and difficult to listen to).
I find the A7 a little too ‘fronty’ between 3kHz and 6 kHz tbh, at totally flat settings as Im used to the A77 (tne bigger version with the LF driver added) so I try to make them sound like them, which you actually can (pretty much) with the control settings on the back.
So, um … that might be useful 
ALSO… just a note that I like 7" speakers for GENERAL USE and I’m recommending YOU 8" drivers as a MINIMUM, for extra bass response, so you dont hate your life…
note: maybe you can get a used JBL 308 Mk I, or LSR 8" powered pair at half the price ($500), I dunno.
I thought I just did that… They sound almost as brutal (well, no… nothing is that bad - but it was pretty cool how close they were general overall tonewise, to an ALL SET FLAT IN MID AIR - with a top notch amp, driving an exceptional pair of 10’s. There was just a touch of 1KHz midrange niceness overall that you could love, instead of hate, hate, hate… :).
As I said, I needed to adjust the balance of them quite a LITTLE bit to make them sound like my beloved ADAM A77’s of old, but it CAN be done, possibly - its been nearly a decade… So I’d imagine so anyway.
looks like i just answered the question twice…
So, anyway … you are probably going to be disappointed in anything so bright and forward as a 7" or below studio monitor, which is ALL about top end, ugly midrange and very little bass under 60Hz. Even @ $2k/pair, I’m still not even kidding… I would say that you should invest in a pair of 8" full range driver powered speakers, in the $500 - $1000 range & expect it to be a little light in the bottom end for heavy metal, and just learn it. Then use your big B&W dudes to judge the sub bass levels… we all have to do that, its just how it is…
When I was listening on the hs5’s from my mom, the honesty of the speakers was actually kind of refreshing. It realy came to me like, "hey, this is maybe something that can help me get around exactly what I’m having troubles with. I’m a bit autistic about somethings, especially when I’m learning things. Like if someone explains something to me, it has to be in a very specific way so that my brain makes the click of understanding it. What I see as a benefit though, cause it also seems to me then when I make that click, its like a world that opens up, and I understand it even in a broader concept then the innicially was implied. I got the same sort of vibe when listening to my mix on the yamaha’s. I’m not sure if its smart, not comparing more speakers, but I feel like when I have these kinds of experiences, I have to follow up on it, even though in the future it might end up being obsolete. So don’t you think I should just go for those yamaha HS8’s in that case? Its not a huge expense, so its not like investing a few k in a high end price class of speakers, to later come to the conclusion I need a different or extra set, to make up for shit I can’t seem to get right on those.