Kali Audio SM-8 Powered Studio Monitor (Single)
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Description
Kali Audio's Santa Monica Series are the best studio monitors they've built so far. With unparralled accuracy, imaging, and translation, they present every detail of your mix with pinpoint precision and fidelity.
The SM-Series features user-editable DSP to process room calibration profiles on board, for a perfect fit in your room.
Kali's Ultimate Speaker
Kali's founding principle is to deliver the best possible product for the price. Kali's speakers have always been praised for their accuracy, translation, and ease of use. The SM-Series builds on these ideals, and incorporates the best available materials, components, and manufacturing. The result is a high performance studio monitor that is ready for the most demanding mixing and mastering applications. With onboard processing for room calibration, each speaker can be programmed with delays, trims, and EQs to deliver accurate response in your room.
The SM-Series gives users full control of 8 parametric EQs, delay up to 12ms, and loudspeaker trim. These parameters can be accessed and edited using our Kali Control Panel application, available for both Mac and Windows. Importantly, since these parameters are processed by the same DSP hardware already in line, using user-defined DSP adds no additional latency to the system. Total digital latency is acceptably low to allow tracking using the SM-Series.
Onboard calibration removes the need for a dedicated room calibration processor. It also prevents some of the confusion and mishap that is possible with a plug-in based processor. Calibration is available for any source you could plug into the speaker, without needing to route it through software, and it will never be active on a mix you print.
Kali has fully documented their recommended room calibration procedures. When you perform the measurement yourself, Kali can provide room tuning files for a small fee per speaker.
Mounting
The SMSeries features mounting holes on both the top and bottom of the loudspeaker. Kali recommends using a speaker specific U-bracket from Triad-Orbit, but any speaker mount with a 4.25 x 2-Inch bolt pattern that is capable of holding the SM-Series' weight will also work.
Specifications
- Self-Powered: Yes- Amplifier: 3-Channel Class D (discrete LF, MR, and HF)
- Amplifier Power: 300 W
- HF Driver: 1-Inch Metal Dome Tweeter
- Midrange Driver: 4-Inch Optimized Profile Paper Cone
- LF Driver: 8-Inch Optimized Paper Woofer
- LF-to-Midrange Crossover: 280 Hz
- Midrange-to-HF Crossover: 2800 Hz
- Frequency Response (-10 dB): 37 Hz - 35 kHz
- Frequency Range (+3 dB): 43 Hz - 21 kHz
- Recommended Listening Distance: Up to 5 Meters
- Max SPL (Peak at 1 meter): 119 dB
- Loudspeaker THD (90 dB SPL at 1 meter): 0.5%
- Audio Inputs: Balanced XLR/TRS Combijack AES/EBU over BNC
- Control Inputs: Ethernet (RJ45) USB-A
- Other I/O: AES/EBU over BNC Thru AC Power Input
- User-Definable DSP (Per Loudspeaker): 8 Parametric EQs, 10 ms of delay, -12 to +6 dB trim
- Enclosure: Front Ported
- DSP latency: 3ms
- Product Height: 19 Inches (48.26 cm)
- Product Depth: 12 Inches (30.5 cm)
- Product Width: 10 Inches (25.4 cm)
- Product Weight: 32 lbs (14.5 kg)
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Purchasing additional years of coverage
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| Product | SKU | Qty |
|---|---|---|
| SM-8 Powered Studio Monitor (Single) | 837132 |
