Kali Audio IN-5 5 Inch 3 Way Powered Studio Monitor (single)

Project IndependenceKali’s IN-Series monitors are some of the most unique studio monitors ever made. Joining together the natural advantages of a 3-way design with ultra-realistic imaging of a co-axial mid-range and tweeter, they provide more transparency, lower distortion, and a soundstage that you need to hear to believed. The 2nd Wave is the second generation of Kali loudspeaker Series. Featuring a newly developed amplifier platform, and lessons learned from years of development in business to add several manufacturing improvements. The IN-5 is the first speaker to include these improvements.

at a glance • Midrange Driver provides clear mids and excellent directivity up to the top of the frequency response
• Powerful Woofer gives clean, punchy bass without disrupting the mids and highs
• Soft Dome Tweeter for smooth and effortless highs
• 160 Watts of class D power

Faithful ReproductionThe single most important element of a studio monitor is the accuracy. A good studio monitor should present the material it’s playing faithfully, so you can make crucial decisions that you know will translate to all the systems that your work will ultimately be played on. Not only do the IN-Series monitors accomplish this, but their coincident architecture allows them to be more accurate than other speakers in a wider range of challenging acoustic environments.

Confident WorkflowWhen you listen to a stereo set of speakers, you’re hearing information about where instruments and players were placed when the material was recorded. Even with purely digital material, producers can control physical locations of elements in the mix, and you will hear these on a stereo recording.

Not only does this allow producers to create interesting spatial effects, but it means that you can work quicker and with more confidence. An accurate soundstage lets you “see” each element of the mix in front of you, so you can hear exactly what happens when you make changes.

The tweeter and midrange share an acoustic center, and the woofer is crossed over at a low-mid frequency, so the distance between the woofer and midrange is well under a quarter wavelength at the crossover point. This means that each IN-Series monitor is acoustically a point source. As such, it has the same excellent directivity that the LP-6 and LP-8 have at their sides in a full 360 degrees around the speaker. You’re hearing all of the spatial information at the listening position, so the soundstage that you hear includes every detail possible in the mix.

Peak AccuracyThe IN-Series monitors have very low distortion. This is the result of freeing both the woofer and the tweeter, so that both are doing less work; the tweeter is only focused on high frequencies, and the woofer only focused on the lower bass frequencies.

The 4-Inch, profile-optimized midrange driver is found in the space in between in the hero of the IN-Series. This driver has a lot of work to do. In addition to reproducing midrange frequencies, it also acts as the waveguide for the tweeter. This means that the shape needed to be precisely engineered to provide an ideal dispersion characteristic for the tweeter.

It also means that the midrange needs to stay still. In many other co-axial or concentric systems, high excursion from the larger driver causes intermodulation distortion, and degrades the accuracy of the system. The midrange on the IN-Series is limited to less than 1 millimeter peak-to-peak excursion, making it acoustically stationary while still providing midrange to keep up with the powerful woofer and tweeter.