Kali Audio’s IN-Series studio monitors are among the most innovative on the market, combining the advantages of a 3-way design with the hyper-realistic imaging of a coaxial mid-range and tweeter. This unique architecture ensures superior transparency, lower distortion, and an expansive soundstage, making them an essential tool for professional mixing and production.
The three-way configuration allows both the woofer and tweeter to operate more efficiently, improving headroom and minimising distortion across the frequency spectrum. Meanwhile, the coincident midrange and tweeter enhance imaging accuracy, ensuring pinpoint precision in your mixes.
By acting as true acoustic point sources, the IN-Series monitors avoid common drawbacks of traditional 3-way and coaxial designs. Whether you’re mixing music, editing dialogue, or mastering tracks, you’ll experience unparalleled clarity and confidence in your work. The IN-5 and IN-8 models are engineered for absolute accuracy, ensuring your mixes translate seamlessly across different playback systems.
Key Features:
- Unmatched Clarity:
The 3-way design reduces workload on the woofer and tweeter, minimising distortion while maintaining exceptional detail and accuracy. - Hyper-Realistic Imaging:
The coaxial midrange and tweeter deliver a precise and immersive stereo field, allowing for accurate placement of mix elements. - Optimised for Any Room:
The IN-Series’ coincident architecture ensures reliable performance in a wide variety of acoustic environments without the need for excessive room correction.
Unrivalled Accuracy:
Accuracy is the cornerstone of any great studio monitor. The IN-Series ensures faithful audio reproduction, allowing you to make informed mix decisions that translate across all playback systems. The coincident midrange and tweeter enable superior performance even in less-than-ideal acoustic environments.
A small on-axis diffraction artifact may appear between 8-10 kHz in static measurements, but this does not impact overall sound power or perceived timbre in a real-world setting. As such, it is not recommended to apply corrective EQ based on single-point static measurements.
Superior Imaging:
Imaging is crucial for understanding the spatial relationships within a mix. The IN-Series’ coaxial midrange and tweeter share an acoustic centre, ensuring that stereo information is presented with exceptional detail.
Most two-way systems struggle with gaps in vertical stereo imaging due to separate tweeter and woofer placement. By contrast, the IN-Series maintains a cohesive stereo field across 360 degrees, allowing you to hear every element in its precise location within the mix.
Exceptional Clarity:
Distortion is significantly reduced in the IN-Series, as both the woofer and tweeter handle narrower frequency ranges. The 4-inch midrange driver plays a crucial role, serving as both a dedicated mid-frequency driver and a waveguide for the tweeter.
Unlike other coaxial designs, the IN-Series midrange is engineered for minimal excursion, reducing intermodulation distortion and preserving the integrity of the sound. This ensures that every detail in your mix remains clear and accurate, even at higher listening levels.
Specifications:
- Powered: Yes
- Amplifier Class: D
- DSP Functions: Loudspeaker tuning, limiter, crossover, boundary EQ settings
- Power Configuration: Tri-amped
- Low-Frequency Power: 60 W
- Midrange Power: 40 W
- High-Frequency Power: 40 W
- Total Power Output: 140 W
- Low-Frequency Driver: 8-inch paper
- Midrange Driver: 4-inch optimised profile paper
- High-Frequency Driver: 1-inch textile dome
- Frequency Response (-10 dB): 37 Hz – 25 kHz
- Frequency Range (±3 dB): 45 Hz – 21 kHz
- LF to Midrange Crossover: 280 Hz
- Midrange to HF Crossover: 2800 Hz
- Recommended Listening Distance: 0.5 – 4 metres
- Maximum SPL: 117 dB
