GearMatched

GearMatched helps musicians and producers find music gear that fits their own situation, instead of a generic best-of list. Studio monitors come first. Guitars and synthesisers are next.

You answer a short visual quiz about your room size, listening distance, placement, the music you make, and your budget. While you answer, a field of real monitors, drawn at true scale, reorders around you: good fits move to the front, poor fits blur and fade. At the end you get three picks (best fit, best value, and, if it is clearly worth it, a stretch pick) with a line on why each one fits, setup advice, and shop links for your region.

The ranking is a rules engine, not a popularity list. It uses independent lab measurements from spinorama.org (the Harman/Olive preference score and bass extension) where they exist, and the makers' specs where they do not. It checks woofer size against room size, port position against wall distance, and whether the pair plays loud enough at your seat with room for peaks. Missing values are never guessed, and a monitor without a measurement is marked and loses part of its score, so it cannot win by being unknown. The site explains every number on its About the data page.

It is a static site built with Astro and Preact, with the rules engine as a separate TypeScript package. It runs on Cloudflare Workers, which also handle the affiliate shop links (regional Amazon routing, no tracking cookies). Product data lives in git as one YAML file per product, checked in CI, and the spinorama data is refreshed every month.