IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitor Speaker, Black

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Even highly demanding sound textures like you find in classical music, jazz or acoustic, will come to life with a precision and musicality that you've never heard before on a speaker of this size. Perhaps to aid its portability, all inward connections – power and audio – are sent to one speaker, which then daisy-chains sound and power to the other.

I found this LF switch to be more effective than the Desk switch with the iLoud monitors on a desk either side of the laptop. For the first time ever there's now a portable Bluetooth speaker that offers you the full power, clear sound, deep bass and stereo image of your studio monitors. Once your monitors are in place, you can experiment with the equalisation controls on the back of the active monitor, to get the perfect sound. I'm comfortable doing 80% of the production and mixing work on them and only doing the last 20% on my main nearfield and headphones. It also optimises the crossover point between woofer and tweeter, making it almost impossible to hear.When doing the DSP dance, and tweaking woofer response digitally there is little reason to use traditional box calculations to determine port tuning. Whether you're recording in a cramped space or mixing in a hotel room, these small and affordable monitors may just be a lifesaver. The marketing wank says that the crossover point is high because they wanted it out of the midrange, and can afford to make that happen with the small 3 inch woofer. The woofer is of standard paper cone construction, described by Ik Multimedia as “ high-performance rigid membrane”. Pretty much exactly what I'd hoped for from a tiny monitor, even better bass extension than I expected.

For clear, accurate referencing, they compare favourably with more established brands, and we’d urge you to give them a try. The first thing to note about the IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitor set is that they are indeed small.Chris Corfield is a journalist with over 12 years of experience writing for some of the music world's biggest brands including Orange Amplification, MusicRadar, Guitar World, Total Guitar and Dawsons Music. This is a nice touch which, in conjunction with the front-facing bass port, meant our speakers being situated directly by a wall didn’t colour the low-end as much as you’d expect. If played loudly on sections of music where there is deep bass and not a lot else going on there will be audible chuffing, but it's not really that bad.

IK Multimedia Production srl - Via dell'Industria, 46 - 41122 Modena, Italy - Phone: +39 059 285496 - Fax: +39 059 2861671 - CF/PI: IT02359550361 - SDI: M5UXCR1 IK Multimedia US, LLC - 590 Sawgrass Corporate Pkwy.The auto sleep mode is a tad annoying when it kicks in after about 8-10 minutes of no audio signal, but thankfully the main dial pulsates to let you know and touching the dial is sufficient to wake it up. There are EQ options for low and high shelf, as well as a desk mode to be used when the speakers are on a desk surface without stands. It’s clear, from all these small details, that the IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitor speakers have been made by people who understand studios, and music production.