Kali Audio IN-5 5" Active Studio Monitor in Black
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SKU: KALIIN5
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Product Description
Here's What Kali Audio Say About the IN Series Monitors
Project Independence
Kali’s IN-Series monitors are some of the most innovative studio monitors ever made. Combining the natural advantages of a 3-way design with hyper-realistic imaging of a co-axial mid-range and tweeter, they offer more transparency, lower distortion, and a soundstage that must be heard to be believed.
Performance - Unrivaled Punch and Detail.
The IN-Series monitors are unlike anything you’ve ever heard. The three-way design lets both the woofer and the tweeter do less work, resulting in better headroom and lower distortion across the frequency spectrum.
At the same time, the coaxial architecture of the midrange and tweeter result in hyper-realistic imaging. This means that you’ll be able to hear subtle details in your mix with pinpoint precision.
The design of the system comes together to allow the IN-Series monitors to act as acoustic point sources. They enjoy all the benefits of both traditional 3-way systems and traditional coaxial speakers, with none of the drawbacks traditionally associated with either.
All of this make the IN-5 and IN-8 extremely accurate and easy to mix on. You’ll be able to work faster and with more confidence, and your mixes are going to translate to other systems with less work.
IN-5:
- 160W Class D Power
- 39 Hz Lower Frequency Response
- < 2% System THD 85 dB @ 1M
- 115 dB Max SPL
Features
- Soft Dome Tweeter: Smooth, effortless highs.
- Profile-optimized Midrange Driver: Clear mids and excellent directivity all the way to the top of the frequency response.
- Powerful Woofer: Clean, punchy bass that doesn’t disrupt the mids and highs.
2nd Wave
The 2nd Wave is our second generation of loudspeaker products. We’ve developed a new amplifier platform, and taken lessons that we’ve learned from our first (nearly) 3 years in business to enact several manufacturing improvements. The IN-5 is the first speaker to realize these improvements.
12 dB reduction in amplifier self noise.
Our new IN-5 is dead quiet when not being used. You won’t hear it even if it’s very close to you and your room is very quiet. And you’ll be able to handle sensitive applications like sound design with total confidence.
Natural finish driver cones.
Less material on the cone increases driver efficiency.
Improved cabinet construction.
For better cosmetic longevity.
More robust DSP.
For more precise tuning.
New Boundary EQ Tunings.
To take advantage of the fact that the IN-5 can be placed horizontally.
Input sensitivity lowered by 3dB.
For higher output from a given input signal.
Accuracy
The single most important aspect of a studio monitor is its accuracy. A good studio monitor should present the material it’s playing faithfully, allowing you to make critical decisions that you know will translate to all the systems that your work will ultimately be played on.
Not only do the IN-Series monitors accomplish this, but their coincident architecture allow them to be more accurate than other speakers in a wider variety of challenging acoustic environments.
Imaging
We know. We keep harping on about the “hyper-realistic” imaging of the IN-Series. What does that mean?
When you listen to a stereo set of speakers, you’re hearing information about where instruments and players were placed when the material was recorded. Even with purely digital material, producers can manipulate physical locations of elements in the mix, and you will hear these on a stereo recording.
Not only does this allow producers to create interesting spatial effects, but it means that you can work faster and with more confidence. An accurate soundstage lets you “see” each element of the mix in front of you, so you can hear exactly what happens when you make changes.
2-way systems with good waveguides, like Kali’s LP-6 and LP-8, do a good job at conveying this spatial information. However, because the tweeter and woofer on those speakers (and most studio monitors!) are separate, this information gets lost in the space immediately above and below the speaker. This means that at the listening position, you’re not hearing the full stereo picture.
The IN-Series solves this problem. The tweeter and midrange share an acoustic center, and the woofer is crossed over at a low-mid frequency, so the distance between the woofer and midrange is well under a quarter wavelength at the crossover point. This means that each IN-Series monitor is acoustically a point source. As such, it has the same excellent directivity that the LP-6 and LP-8 have at their sides in a full 360 degrees around the speaker. You’re hearing all of the spatial information at the listening position, so the soundstage that you hear will have every detail that’s present in the mix.
Clarity
The IN-Series monitors have very low distortion. This is the result of unburdening both the woofer and the tweeter, so that both are doing less work; the tweeter is only focused on high frequencies, and the woofer only has to worry about bass.
Taking up the space in between in the hero of the IN-Series: the 4-Inch, profile-optimized midrange driver. This driver has a lot of work to do. In addition to reproducing midrange frequencies, it also acts as the waveguide for the tweeter. This means that the shape needed to be precisely engineered to provide an ideal dispersion characteristic for the tweeter.
It also means that the midrange needs to stay still. In many other co-axial or concentric systems, high excursion from the larger driver causes intermodulation distortion, and degrades the accuracy of the system. The midrange on the IN-Series is limited to less than 1 millimeter peak-to-peak excursion, making it acoustically stationary while still providing midrange to keep up with the powerful woofer and tweeter.
Specifications
- Powered: Yes
- Amp Class: D
- Power Config: Tri-Amped
- LF Power: 80 W
- Mid-Range Power: 40 W
- HF Power: 40 W
- Total Power: 160 W
- LF Driver: 5" Paper
- Mid-Range Driver: 4" Optimized Profile Paper
- HF Driver: 1-Inch Textile Dome
- Freq. Response (-10 dB): 39 Hz - 25 kHz
- Freq. Range (±3 dB): 47 Hz - 21 kHz
- LF to Mid-Range Crossover: 280 Hz
- Mid-Range to HF Crossover: 2800 Hz
- Recommended Listening Distance: 0.2 - 2.2 Meters
- Max SPL: 115 dB