Mackie HR824 Active Studio Monitor (Single)

Provided by Sam Ash

The HR824 in action really is a revelation. This biamped speaker features a 150 watt power amp for the woofer and a 100 watt power amp for the tweeter. The stereo sound field is wide, deep, and incredibly detailed. High frequencies and midrange are clean and articulated. Low frequencies are no more or less than what you recorded -- you can actually hear the distinct tonal qualities (and harmonic quantities) of a particular bass instrument -- instead of just a "generic" bass note. Most important, the sweet spot is a broad, three-dimensional area that gives you room to move up, down and across the console. In short, instead of having its own distinctive "sound," the HR824 sounds like the outputs of your mixer. Price per speaker.

• Provides lots of bottom end and comfortable high end for long sessions of general mixing
• Extremely even dispersion for wide mixing sweet spot
• Non-fatiguing through hours of use-1 inch alloy dome tweeter?s smooth response allows hours of pain-free monitoring
• 1-inch waveguide-loaded HF transducer-its logarithmic wave guide allows the high frequency dispersion pattern to match that of the bass transducer for a seamless midrange transition, eliminating audible anomalies that can occur at the crossover point
• Non-resonant, H-braced cabinet with adiabatic foam damping

Every HR824 off the line meets the same specifications - as it is stated in a signed certificate with each speaker - so you can buy any number of them and be assured of an accurate, consistent performance. This goes beyond quality control--an engineer sits with an oscilloscope checking every HR824 to ensure that each one works and plays well with others. The frequency graph is ultra-flat, �1.5dB from 39Hz on through 22.5kHz, and each unit is within 0.5dB of the rest. There is absolutely nothing you will hear through these speakers that wasn't there when you recorded it.