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

Kali Audio LP-8 V2 Studio Monitor Overview

The Kali Audio LP-8 V2 put the ability to achieve excellent mixes within anyone’s grasp. This monitor helps content creators and professional mixers and if you purchase two you can deliver exceptional mixes using the advanced waveguide for 3D imaging. The monitor offers clear sound reproduction throughout the frequency range, a low-noise performance, and a sensitivity that reaches levels necessary for creating punchy and fully realized mixes.

This is the second generation of the Lone Pine series, delivering lower-noise, higher sensitivity, a smoother high-end, and a more consistently accurate low-end than the original monitor. Furthermore, the Boundary EQ settings have all been updated based on user feedback, delivering tuning options more tailored for real-world scenarios.

3-D Waveguide

The 3-D Imaging Waveguide allows you to hear a 3-D soundstage from a stereo pair of speakers. By matching the shape of the waveguide to the interactions of the HF and LF drivers, this waveguide produces a stereo image that is wider, taller, and deeper than the space where the speakers are placed. The LP-8 accomplishes this by ensuring that the speaker’s reflected sound matches its direct sound.

Clear-Sounding Voice Coil

The voice coil on the LP-8 allows the speaker to have high excursion, resulting in clearer sound with lower harmonic distortion, and a high degree of detail.

Low-Noise Port Tube

The port tube on the LP-8 was designed to ensure that all of the air leaves the port tube at the same velocity. This helps add to the low end response of the speaker, while keeping the bass clean, tight, and devoid of extra noise.

High Output

The LP-8 is capable of 85 dB continuous output, with 20 dB of dynamic headroom from as far as 8′ / 2.2 m. This makes it an excellent choice as a main, side surround, or overhead speaker in most small-to-medium-sized mixing rooms.

Boundary EQs

Kali’s team came up with boundary compensation EQ settings at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles to help you get the optimum sound for where you need to put your speakers. Combined with the LF and HF trims, these boundary settings will ensure that the speakers sound their best no matter what room you’re mixing in.

There are EQ settings for:

• Free Space
• Speakers on stands, against a wall
• Speakers on a desk, away from a wall
• Speakers on a desk, against a wall
• Speakers on a console meter bridge
• Speakers on a studio desk