Event Electronics ASP8N-RESTOCK

The first time you listen to a pair of Studio Precision™ monitors, you'll almost surely shake your head in disbelief—then break out in a smile. We've seen it happen time and time again: People just can't believe that they're hearing a sound so big and so alive coming from direct field monitors. But your ears aren't deceiving you. Studio Precision monitors deliver a sound that's much wider, much deeper, much more defined, and packed with much more low-end punch than mere mortal direct field monitors. Simply put, they far exceed people's sonic expectations—and by a huge margin.

You see, even after years of designing a slew of award-winning products for the professional studio monitor market—the 20/20bas™, Project Studio™, and Tuned Reference™ biamplified monitors, to name a few—our venerable engineers, Frank Kelly and Walter Dick, were still on their quest to deliver the ultimate direct field monitor. They wanted to come up with a totally new design that would surpass anything they had done to date. A design that would cause recording musicians around the world to sit up and truly take notice. In short, a design that would bring a whole new dimension to the direct field monitoring experience.

Custom-designed in every aspect, the drivers deliver a whole new level of performance, in part through the use of neodymium magnets. Neodymium—a rare earth material at the forefront of loudspeaker technology—produces significantly higher magnetic energy than conventional ceramic magnets. This allows the creation of a "supercharged" driver motor that provides for lower distortion and a much greater level of output efficiency—that is, more output per watt—than woofers designed with traditional magnets.

The cabinets themselves were carefully designed to deliver deep low frequency response yet be small enough to fit comfortably into today's modern recording environments. Larger studios can use the 8" models to fill the room with enough heart-pounding sound to impress even those "I want you to rock me" clients, and smaller studios can do the same with the 6.5" versions—with no compromise in performance. All of the cabinets are constructed from 3/4" MDF (precision-milled to 0.005" tolerance), which insures that the sound emanating from the speakers is pure and clean—free from artificial tonescreated by unwanted cabinet resonance.

An obvious distinguishing feature of the Studio Precision front baffle is the dual port design. The ports may just look like a couple of holes, but they are much, much more. They are the reason that you can truly feel the tremendous low frequency response—not just hear it. The real story lies beyond the front-baffle holes, inside the cabinet itself. Ready for a little speaker design theory? Here we go: Bass ports are incorporated in monitors to provide extended low frequency response—they help move the significant amount of air required to accurately reproduce low frequency material. For optimum performance, a port tube should be straight, which means its length is limited by the depth of the cabinet.

• Low Frequency Driver: Magnetically shielded 8" mineral-filled polypropylene cone with neodymium magnet, 1-1/2" diameter high-temperature voice coil, and damped rubber surround
• High Frequency Driver: Magnetically shielded 1" diameter ferrofluid-cooled soft dome neodymium radiator
• Frequency Response: 35Hz – 20kHz, ±3dB, ref. 500Hz
• Amplifier Power: Biamplified, 280 Watts; 200W LF driver/80W HF driver; toroidal transformer
• Crossover: 2.6kHz, active asymmetrical fourth-order
• Low Frequency Trim Control: Continuously variable; maximum cut/boost setting produces ±3dB @ 100Hz; ±2dB @ 400Hz
• High Frequency Trim Control: Continuously variable maximum cut/boost setting produces ±3dB above 2.6kHz
• High Pass Filter: Pushbutton in/out; 80Hz, second-order filter slope
• Input Sensitivity: Continuously variable; 1.1V input produces full output with Input Sensitivity Control at Max
• Inputs: Balanced XLR and 1/4"
• Indicators: Power-on/Clip LED
• Protection: RF interference, output current limiting, over temperature, turn on/off transient, subsonic filter, internal fuse, magnetic shielding
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 16" x 12.5" x 11.875"
• Weight: 32.5 lbs