I was looking at these for the back porch. Easy to build, paint the MDF enclosures same color as the house. I thought about doing a vinyl wrap or kitchen type of laminate on them. Done dirt cheap.
This is from the GR Reasearch Headers
Original X-LS mini-monitor: $109 per pair.
These were reviewed by Audioholics, Affordable Audio, Home Theater and High Fidelity, GoodSound, Tone Audio, Consumer Guide, Prillaman.net, and several others. They received two Product of the Year awards, Best Buy award, Budget Speaker of the Year, and seems like there might have been one or two more that I can't remember. An upgrade for that model offered by the Skiing Ninja was also reviewed by Tone Audio.