re: "and only need readers for near"
The older multifocals were bifocals with adds that targeted near and had lower quality intermediate vision. Just this year the US has approved lower add multifocals from both Tecnis and Alcon that do a better job of intermediate vision, while still leaving decent near with just a small chance of needing readers. The Symfony (if you go outside the US) is a better bet for excellent distance&intermediate with a slight chance of needing readers for near. Trifocals (not available in the US) give good vision at all three ranges, with perhaps not quite as good intermediate as the Symfony but very near might be better. There are a few models of trifocal, the Zeiss AT Lisa Tri and the Finevision trifocal are the most common (generally rated as being comparable, with some sources giving one or the other a slight edge in different ways depending on the patient), with major vendor Alcon just having gotten approval a few weeks ago for the Panoptix trifocal that I haven't seen any data on yet to see how it compares.
re: "Please tell us about your Symfony experience?"
I've already posted about that in perhaps too much detail in a thread here:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Eye-Care/my-Symfony-IOL-results-after-cataract-surgery/show/2425258
Your profile indicates you are in the US (which hasn't yet approved the Symfony). If you aren't going to go outside the US, there is a thread here by someone who received the new Tecnis +2.75D lens:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Eye-Care/Tecnis-275D-MF-IOL-Experience/show/2597910
He is one of the rare people bothered by halos with the low add lens (which can happen even with a monofocal) but they may go away with time, often they disappear in the first few months for those who have them initially. Although the Tecnis lenses seem to be better in certain ways than the AcrySof Restor lenses (less chromatic aberration for instance) I just recently saw a video indicating that the new Acrysof +2.5D low add lens has a different design than the Acrysof +3D lens and isn't merely a different lens power:
http://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/refractive-surgery/news/online/%7B543dce4e-252f-4ad9-821d-30961b045e35%7D/video-speaker-discusses-acrysof-iq-restor-25-iol
" VIDEO: Speaker discusses AcrySof IQ ReSTOR 2.5 IOL"
Halos may be less of an issue with that design than with the +3. That video shows simulated halos, but unfortunately the only Tecnis lens they show is the +4 and not the low add Tecnis lenses. That is the only simulation of halos I recall seeing comparing the Restor and Tecnis showing the sort of difference I see there (though it may be I hadn't paid enough attention to the halo descriptions of those lenses in the past, I think its more that they usually aren't shown).