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Kali Audio SM-8 Active 3-Way Studio Monitor Pair  From Kali

Project Santa Monica: Kali’s finest speaker yet combines our proven 3-way architecture with uncompromising components and craftsmanship. The SM-Series delivers unrivaled imaging, accuracy, and detail for the most critical applications.

Kali Audio

$4,998.00

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Manufacturer's Description from Kali

Kali Audio's latest flagship studio monitor, the SM-8, is a 3-way 300W active studio monitor with network control, ideal for content creators and professional mixing engineers. It combines Kali's proven 3-way coincident architecture with uncompromising components to deliver unparalleled imaging, accuracy, and detail for critical mixing applications. Designed for the more serious, experienced/professional customer, this is a preferred choice for Atom and Immersive audio applications.

The SM-8 features an 8" woofer, 4" midrange driver, and 1" aluminum-dome tweeter. The speaker features user-definable DSP parameters that allow for each speaker to be fully calibrated in its environment. The DSP offers 8 bands of EQ, delay, and trim controls. Users can set different calibration profiles, allowing for placement in different rooms, and tuning to different targets.

Tweeter

  • 1" coaxial aluminum-dome tweeter.
  • Specialized geometry that reduces high-Q, ultrasonic resonances, eliminating the harsh sound that can plague metal-dome design.
  • Smooth frequency response with less fatigue than traditional metal domes.

Woofer

  • Shorting rings to reduce flux modulation.
  • Optimized design for high linearity and low distortion.
  • Boundary EQ Settings
  • Boundary EQ offers presets that are tailored to eight common speaker placements.
  • LF/HF trims for fine-tuning the speaker's response.

Connections

  • AES/EBU over BNC.
  • Ethernet for Network Control.
Kali Audio

About Manufacturer

Kali Audio was started in January 2018 by some of the Professional Audio Industry’s most passionate individuals. With engineering at the forefront, Kali aims to make loudspeakers and related products that present the best possible value to our customers. By devoting time and resources to research and development, and with a little bit of panache, we offer high-performance products that fit any budget.

Kalis products are designed and engineered in California, and each of our product lines is named after a town or city in California. Lone Pine, our debut line of studio monitors, gets its name from a town in the Eastern Sierra from which climbers disembark to summit Mt. Whitney, the highest mountain in the lower 48 states. Much like this climb, we felt that our debut line was ambitious, challenging, and a little risky. Mountain View, an accessory for connecting Bluetooth devices with professional audio systems, was named after the town in which several large tech companies, including Google, are headquartered. As these companies insist on removing physical audio connectors from their devices, we thought this name would be a fun way to put them on notice.

In addition to our current product line, Kali Audio is developing several other loudspeakers, including a subwoofer and a new studio monitor. Please join our [link to mailing list]email list to stay up to date on our newest developments, and be sure to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube as well.

Kali is headquartered in Los Angeles and has team members dispersed throughout Southern California. Our team enjoys working in a creative, experiment-heavy environment. Taking the time and space to explore ideas as they come allows us to develop products that are innovative, useful, and deliver incredible value to our customers.

Specifications

  • Monitor Type & Configuration: Active 3-Way
  • Total Power Output: 300 W
  • Tweeter: 1x 1" / 25.4 mm Aluminum Curved Cone
  • Midrange: 1x 4" / 10.2 cm Cone
  • Woofer: 1x 8" / 20.3 cm Cone
  • Frequency Range: 37 Hz to 30 kHz (-10 dB)
  • Audio I/O: 1x Combo XLR-1/4" TRS Balanced/Unbalanced Line Input
  • Digital Audio I/O:
    • 1x BNC Coaxial AES-3id Input
    • 1x BNC Coaxial AES-3id Thru
  • Network I/O: 1x RJ45 Dante
  • Enclosure: Bass-Reflex/Ported
  • Total Power Output: 300 W

Drivers

  • Tweeter: 1x 1" / 25.4 mm Aluminum Curved Cone
  • Midrange: 1x 4" / 10.2 cm Cone
  • Woofer: 1x 8" / 20.3 cm Cone

Performance

  • Frequency Range: 37 Hz to 30 kHz (-10 dB)
  • Maximum Sound Pressure Level (SPL): 119 dB
  • Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): <0.5%
  • Protections and Limiting: Limiter

Signal Processing

  • Crossover Frequency:
    • Low-Pass: 280 Hz
    • High-Pass: 2800 Hz
  • Phase Adjustment: No

Connectivity

  • Audio I/O: 1x Combo XLR-1/4" TRS Balanced/Unbalanced Line Input
  • Digital Audio I/O:
    • 1x BNC Coaxial AES-3id Input
    • 1x BNC Coaxial AES-3id Thru
  • Network I/O: 1x RJ45 Dante

Physical

  • Color: Black
  • Monitor Orientation: Vertical or Horizontal
  • Dimensions (W x H x D): 10 x 19 x 12" / 25.4 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm
  • Weight: 32.0 lb / 14.5 kg

Packaging Info

  • Package Weight: 38 lb
  • Box Dimensions (LxWxH): 25.5 x 16.5 x 14.75"