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For the past couple of weeks, I've been fortunate enough to use a pair of KRK V6s and the V12 sub in my control room, along with my normal array of studio monitors. I have grown very fond of them for their clarity and sense of power - so much so that I choose them over seven other sets of much more expensive studio monitors as my main monitoring source for last week's mix. The biggest advantage that I've heard from these speakers is the transference rate - meaning my mixes sounded very similar on my crappy car CD player as in the control room. As a mixing engineer, this is my goal in life. I don't want any surprises.
The 120-watt, bi-amped V6s have a 1" tweeter, and a 6" Kevlar woofer. KRK is also manufacturing the V4 (4" woofer) and the V8 (8" woofer). One huge difference that I noticed, compared to my personal standards, was that the stereo image was huge. I didn't expect this out of such a physically small, much cheaper speaker. According to KRK, these speakers have "radiused edges for improved imaging." I've spent around a half...