It is actually surprisingly good. There are of course a few drawbacks;
Being an open baffle dipole, they needs some room to breath, just like electrostatics You're not going to get big bass, but you won't get that from a monitor speaker anyway Treble's going to be kinda soft
Given the needs of hungrych, the first point pretty much rules them out as he wants to stick one of them on a desktop close to a wall.
Unfortunately I can't really answer the question as small desktop or bookshelf type speakers are something I have little experience with.