Kali Audio LP-8 V2 8-inch Powered Studio Monitor – Black (Each)

Kali Audio LP-8 V2 8-inch Powered Studio Monitor – Black (Each)

The Kali Audio LP-8 2nd Wave is ideal for musicians, producers, and engineers working in larger studio spaces. Designed to deliver exceptional accuracy, these monitors ensure that your recordings and mixes translate precisely. With a 3.6-metre optimal listening distance, they provide clear sound for up to three listeners, making them perfect for collaborative environments.

The LP-8 features a low-noise port tube, engineered to eliminate unwanted turbulence, offering a clean and detailed low-end response. This is crucial for capturing the nuances in bass-heavy genres or dynamic sound effects. Additionally, the 3-D Imaging Waveguide enhances the stereo image, giving you a wider and more immersive soundstage, which helps in pinpointing subtle details during mixing sessions. Equipped with digital signal processing and boundary compensation EQs, the LP-8 adapts seamlessly to different room acoustics, ensuring optimal sound quality regardless of placement.

Exceptional clarity with ample headroom

The LP-8 2nd Wave is designed to offer exceptional clarity and consistency in any audio production environment. With 20 dB of headroom, it handles sudden audio peaks, such as loud kick drums or special effects – without introducing distortion. This allows you to mix with confidence, knowing that what you hear is accurate and reliable.

Its extended listening distance of 3.6 metres makes it suitable for larger rooms, accommodating up to three listeners at once. This feature ensures that whether you’re working alone or collaborating, everyone hears the same clear, detailed sound.

Tight, clean bass without noise

The LP-8’s low noise port tube is a game-changer for bass reproduction. Traditional port designs can cause turbulence, resulting in distracting resonant sounds. The LP-8 avoids this by ensuring air exits the port tube evenly, delivering a clean and focused bass response. This design enhances the clarity of low frequencies, allowing you to make precise adjustments to your mix.

If you’re working with bass-heavy genres or subtle low-end elements, the LP-8 ensures that your mixes remain accurate and free from unwanted noise, helping you achieve a polished and professional sound.

Immersive 3-D soundstage

The LP-8’s 3-D Imaging Waveguide sets it apart by creating an expansive and immersive soundstage. By carefully aligning the interactions between the high and low frequency drivers, the waveguide produces a coherent stereo image that extends beyond the physical placement of the speakers.

This allows you to hear spatial details with greater precision, such as the placement of instruments in a mix or the depth of a recording space. This enhanced imaging capability helps you make better decisions during the mixing process, ensuring your tracks translate well across different playback systems.

Customisable sound with advanced DSP

The LP-8 2nd Wave features advanced digital signal processing (DSP) to adapt its performance to your specific studio environment. The DSP manages various functions, including boundary compensation EQs, crossover settings, and user-adjustable high and low frequency trims. This flexibility ensures you can tailor the speaker’s output to match the acoustics of your room.

The boundary compensation EQs, developed at The Village Studios in Los Angeles, allow you to correct for placement near walls or corners, maintaining balanced and accurate sound. Combined with the adjustable HF and LF trims, you have complete control over the tonal balance, ensuring your mixes are consistent and true to your original intentions.

Features

• Designed for exceptional accuracy in recording, mixing, and production across all genres

• LP-8 offers a listening distance of 3.6 meters, ideal for larger rooms with up to 3 listeners

• Limiter circuit prevents damage from unsafe voltage levels, with audible distortion as a warning

• Low noise port tube minimizes turbulence, delivering clean and tight bass without “chuffing”

• 3-D Imaging Waveguide creates a wide, tall, and deep stereo soundstage by matching direct and reflected sounds

• High-performance woofer with large voice coil and magnet for dynamic range, clarity, and extended low end

• Equipped with DSP for speaker tuning, limiter, crossover, boundary EQs, and user-adjustable HF and LF trim

• 2nd Wave technology platform improves performance, applicable to monitors purchased after November 2021

• Boundary Compensation EQs developed for optimal sound in any room setup

Specifications

• Powered: Yes

• Amp Class: D

• Power Config: Bi-Amped

• HF Power: 40 W

• LF Power: 60 W

• Total Power: 100 W

• HF Driver: 1-Inch Textile Dome

• LF Driver: 8-Inch Optimized Paper

• Crossover: 1800 Hz

• Frequency Response (-10 dB): 37 Hz – 25 kHz

• Frequency Range (±3 dB): 45 Hz – 21 kHz

• Recommended Listening Distance: 0.5 – 3.5 Meters

• Max SPL: 117 dB

• System THD: <2.5% from 80 Hz to 400 Hz <1.4% above 400 Hz (90dB SPL @1m)

• Unbalanced Inputs: 1 x RCA

• Balanced Inputs: 1 x XLR, 1 x TRS

• TRS/XLR Input Sensitivity: 94dB SPL @1m (anechoic) for +4dBu input

• RCA Input Sensitivity: 94dB SPL @1m (anechoic) for -10dBV input

• Enclosure: Front Ported

• Height: 16.5 Inches (41.9 cm)

• Width: 10 Inches (25.4 cm)

• Depth: 11.25 Inches (28.6 cm)

• Product Weight: 19.8 lbs (9 kg)

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Why Buy From OneStopMusic

At OneStopMusic, we’re passionate musicians and audio experts dedicated to helping you find the perfect gear. We offer a massive selection of premium musical instruments, music technology, professional audio equipment, and accessories from the world’s top brands.

Get honest expert advice, competitive prices, fast delivery, and outstanding service from a team that truly understands music. Whether you’re buying your first guitar or building a professional studio, we make sure you get the right equipment at the right price — every time.

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