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Whether you have an entire basement devoted to your full-fledged project studio, are working out of a little one room suite, or are mixing your tracks in the corner of the bedroom while your better half sleeps, we have three brand spanking new monitors that might just work for you.
KRK Systems Exposé E8Bs
($5,000, www.krksystem.com)
KRK has generated quite a buzz among home studio owners with their Rokit and VXT lines, the latter of which was given a thorough series of tests in the December ?7 issue of EQ. But we had to see what their newest pro product, the Exposé E8B, was all about ... so we ordered two up.
With features such as a one-inch beryllium/aluminum tweeter (for extended high range frequency performance and enhanced transient response), a multilayered Kevlar/Rohacell woofer (for accurate low-end reproduction) and dual discrete class A/AB amps, it's easy to see why the Exposé E8B costs the pretty pennies it does. The components are all high quality, and the design- what with the nonparallel, Internal walls that ensure that no wave is left standing and all- is superb. Additionally, the monitors have radiused curved edges that reduce diffraction (this occurs when sound waves hit a square edge of the cabinet). They are supposed to perform pretty well to boot, or so the one sheet says.
I lugged these 40-pound monsters up to my console, stabilizing the speakers with a pair of Auralex MoPADs to isolate the monitors from the console surface (you gotta decouple), and then ran a mix through my...