What you DON'T KNOW about your STUDIO MONITORS! 

Front vs. rear ported?

Working on monitors vs headphones (with crossfeed to make the comparison more true, if that's what your prefer). Why mix on speakers when you can get great headphones for a fraction of the cost, cut the room out of the equation and also be able to do work outside of the studio with the same familiar sound signature? I obviously have some situations/conditions when a speaker makes more sense. But in the long run I think headphones have the edge, especially for home studios. People are also consuming music much more on headphones these days compared to lets say 25 years ago. So one could argue that it's more important now days to make a mix that works on headphones without crossfeed. Even though that's really not a problem since almost all mixes work on both. Gone are the early days of stereo mixes.

Good one!@@seitsen

@@borisgrigull7772 phase wraps are just the phase rotation caused by a minimum phase (read: not linear phase) crossover. FIR DSP crossovers (and analog active with phase compensation via all-pass filters) can have the phase rotation corrected out.

@@seitsen tradeoffs. Front ported tends to make pipe resonances be out of phase with the woofer so you get interference dips, but they're less sensitive to wall proximity. Rear ports actually have their tuning slightly affected by proximity to the wall - too close and it actually drops a bit because the port appears to be "longer" than it actually is.

Yup. Good stuff ! Nice to see you Warren still doing good Warren :)

Aamen !

Absolutely 💯

He’s German xD

And he doesn’t throw ads and nonsense at you every 5 seconds.

Thanks! I usually try to talk to people who know their shit. I met Charles a few days before and knew that he’s the guy!

@paulwilliams6959 Charles Sprinkle and one of his colleagues were formerly lead studio monitor designers at Harman/JBL. There's a vast vault of knowledge and expertise there in regards to all types of transducer and loudspeaker design, testing, and measurements. I have the KALI IN-8 v2 and they are impressive for the money. @KaliAudio ...if you read this, the only thing I'd appreciate that you add to these enclosures (IN-8v2) is at least some type of butyl rubber & thick aluminum foil Constrained Layer Damping (CLD) sheet material (i.e. Dynamat Extreme or similar) applied to the.interior sides and top panels of the enclosures. Just with a light "knuckle knocking test" on the sides and top, the panels resonate quite a bit. I'm all for it if it adds $20 to the cost. ;) Cheers

Also, a perfectly placed, eq’d and time aligned subwoofer along with a high crossover was what saved my small bedroom acoustics nightmare in the low end. Now, the amount of corrective eq I did to the sub did neuter the max SPL a bit but my phase is perfect (dialed in myself using Smaart v8 software) and it sits right where it needs to not as a low end extension device but as a dip filler for that big ass 85hz dip that most averaged size rooms have. I love having my seated/standing desk along with the genelec GLM software. I’ve got two height presets for the desk that are accompanied by GLM presets for eq time and phase so whether I want to sit or stand I get an almost identical sound. For whatever reason tho the low end is much better when I’m standing so in the standing position I can mute my sub if I want and still get really accurate low end monitoring. Cheers everyone and good luck! If all else fails use headphones. They will sound the same everywhere and if Andrew Scheps can mix records for Rihanna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers on nothing but $100 Sony closed back cans we can too. (Although I prefer my audio technicas ❤). Slate vsx is also AWESOME.

I fully agree! The two questions that matter to me are: 1.) do the mixes translate? 2.) is it fun to work on the speakers? (if you do this 8 hours+ every day, this is really important too)

I can relate to this so much! In my experience the flattest possible system hasn't been the best, although it's a good starting point for tuning. Nowadays I try to adjust my system so that my favorite songs sound as good as possible (to my ears) and that's the setup I mix with. Then my work translates very well and that's the most important thing for me. It's the same thing with monitors or headphones.

To be clear: we design in California, we build in China.

@@kaliaudio Hey Nate & Charles, thanks for the honesty and transparency. Those in the know realize that China and Indonesia currently have some of the world's most high-tech and best quality audio transducer manufacturing facilities. I'm really looking forward to checking out your new "Santa Monica" series SM-5/SM-5C monitors soon. :) At the moment, I'm using your IN-8v2 as my secondary monitors and have been extremely impressed with them. The ONLY suggestion I might have regarding build quality of the IN-8v2 is that I wish they had some additional or better internal bracing, and/or some type of internal Constrained Layer Damping (CLD) sheet material applied to the interior enclosure panels, especially the side panels, as they are quite resonant... ...Products such as ResoNix Sound Solutions CLD Tiles, Dynamat Extreme, or Stinger Road Kill Ultimate CLD-type products that are used for car audio panel resonance control come to mind, and shouldn't add significant cost in production when purchased in wholesale/bulk quantities. It doesn't require very much of any of these products in order to be effective at reducing panel resonances. But just some additional internal bracing might be more cost-effective and provide similar improvements. I also wish you would release a car audio component driver lineup, as I would love to be able to use the Concentric midrange/tweeter drive unit from the IN-5 & IN-8 in my high-end DSP controlled car audio systems. :P For the moment, I'm using another former JBL/Harman alumni's car audio speaker products in one of my vehicles with great success (Andy Wehmeyer's AUDIOFROG GB-series component speakers). But your Concentric mid/tweeter drive unit would simplify aftermarket speaker installs and allow for much better installation options for aftermarket car stereo when using the OEM speaker locations! Although the potential additional depth of the dual motor system of your concentric drivers might limit their use in some OEM speaker locations. However, this might be another stream of revenue, especially if you became a supplier of speaker drive units to OEM automotive manufacturers for their premium/upgraded OEM audio systems. Anyhow, I wish you continued success. Cheers

Great to hear that!

@@KohleAudioKultAh, and btw. great Video, again :)

the question si what speakers you were on before ?

Funny, a friend has the in-8 and his mixes don't translate very well at all

@@mirkomarkovic3438 A good chance the room your friend is mixing in is the problem.

@@mirkomarkovic3438 if your room isn’t treated, no monitors will translate. Like he said in the video, everything under 700hz is out of his control. It really is up to the consumer to get the most out of the monitors.

@@LaidbackSounds my most recent were the presonus e44’s. Complete garbage imo. They just lie and are quite edgy sounding. Very unpleasant for long sessions. Also one of them developed a hum over the few years.

Now you know, haha!

Haha! You’re welcome

Enjoy!

You’re more than welcome! I was very impressed with your speakers when I tried them at Nolly’s 🤘❤️

Great to hear that! 🤘 Make sure to check out the Kohle Audio Kult Academy for more content if you haven’t already!

Sweet, I'm looking to learn in the same timbre and sonic scape range, but different genre and instrumentation. I enjoy some ex metal, but love messing around with synths and fx.

I love that typo!

What can I do? It’s part of the game 😜

They’re incredible for the price

Danke dir! Bis bald!

Perfect for interviews!

@LeikiUeda It's a very common microphone recording technique that has been used since at least the mid-40s for recording multiple singers and their instruments around the microphone. Look into the microphone technique used in the recording of the Cowboy Junkies' "Trinity Session" and "Trinity Revisited" which are considered hallmark recordings.

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@@KohleAudioKult new subscriber so I'm definitely gonna watching this 🤘🏻

If you are looking to find a position in the room for good bass response, I can show you something that you may find useful. Take the speakers and put them in your listening position. (Wherever you'll be sitting when listening to the speakers.). Play some music and walk around the room until you find the place where they sound best. Put the speakers there and fine tune placement after that. Its much faster than placing the speakers and listening for an improvement.

That's exactly what a studio monitor is supposed to do! Make you mix until things sound great.

Some of us -- including Mr. Sprinkle and yours truly -- "enjoy listening to music on" on our Kali monitors. I don't understand the rift between "hi fi" speakers and monitors -- doesn't "hi fi" mean "high fidelity," IOW "great faithfulness" to the intentions of the folks who create the tracks? If a mix sounds crappy on a "very revealing" system it's a crappy mix!

@@editorjuno Agreed -- I guess I meant more from the typical consumer perspective. I listen to music on them all the time now. The initial go with them in my treated mix room was the "woah" moment. My ears have adjusted.

@@billyhughes9776 -- Understood. 😎

@gdel5104 If you are interested in learning more about loudspeaker design on crossovers as well as "room acoustics", I would highly recommend the following two books which are pretty much the Go-To "Bibles" of Loudspeaker Design and Acoustics: Vance Dickason: "The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook" Floyd Toole: "Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms” Try to get the latest editions that have the newest revisions. Cheers

Beat me to it

Added now! Sorry for that

It’s a dead gateway. FYI.

The link doesn't work, tho.

"linear" power supply are the worst. The ripple are terrible. you need big capacitor. Man, get on the new wave. Open any active speaker and you'll see.

@@animalmuppetmonster664 Well, that depends also heavily on the PSU architecture. I would rather argue that it just dissipates a lot of heat, but not that there are performance issues in general. A linear supply requires proper regulation. Modern linear regulators are very performant and almost as dead as a battery when it comes to noise or ripple. When I design high performance PSU for analog applications I normally use a switched mode followed by an LDO for post regulation.