Hi Joe, welcome to the forums. Have a good time exploring.
As for speakers, if you read up on that topic here you will find many instances where “In PA you get what you pay for”. There is no reasonable speaker for that kind of money, certainly not a pair. So if you wanna gig, borrow or rent something decent. For practice at home either a set of “DJ monitors” (like the KRK 5″or 6″) will be good, but they are totally unsuited for “the road”. Alternatively you could try to source some used 10″ PA speakers from a good brand. Those you could use both at home and for the occasional small party.
Don’t get lured by 100 bucks a piece speakers with great marketing model names and brands that you can find on Amazon and such, it will only lead to utter disappointment imho.
Just my three cents as usual.
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