AudioKinesis studio monitors mentioned in Mix Magazine feature article

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Duke

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In Mix Magazine's "Class of 2013" feature article, June 2013 issue, one of the recording studios so honored is Baoli Records in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.   The studio design is by Jeff Hedback (his third year in a row to make Mix Magazine's "Class of" list), who also does room design and treatment work for home audio.  Jeff specified custom main monitors by yours truly for that studio.

Anyway here's a link to that page in Mix Magazine, scroll down a little less than halfway:

http://mixonline.com/recording/studio_design/class_of_2013//index3.html

The custom mains I designed for that studio are large MTM (more precisely MHM) monitors with two 12" woofers and a rectangular waveguide-style horn in the middle.  This configuration does a good job of pattern-matching in both the horizontal and vertical planes.   The woofers have large voice coils (4" diameter) and Faraday rings so they combine excellent thermal characteristics with very low distortion.  The compression driver is a polymer diaphgragm unit with a powerful neodymium magnet.   You can see the speakers a bit better in the photos in this thread:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=99552.0

A few months ago I shipped a similar pair to a studio in Houston, another collaboration with Jeff Hedback, and reports back are again quite positive.  I think my studio monitors do a good job in the liveliness department (relative to their comparable-price competition) without falling short in other areas, and that liveliness helps when the time comes for the recording engineer to show off his work to his clients.

James Romeyn

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Congratulations, Duke, for your not insignificant contribution to Jeff's award winning studio!  Who'da thunk, if they happen to visit Haiti, they could find such a killer recording studio to make music.