As a recording engineer, you need to trust your instincts, your ears, and most of all, your reference monitors. It's like this: if the speakers that you're listening to your mix through aren't providing you with an accurate image of your sound, you won't know what you're listening to. Soon you'll start mistrusting yourself, so investing in pair of accurate monitors as a beginning recordist is especially important. Luckily, there's a name you can trust in home recording, and an active monitor that's been around the block more than a few times: the KRK RPG2 Rokit.
KRK has become one of the most trusted names in home recording, but inly after becoming a well-known success in professional circles. They've taken the engineering know-how that goes into their top-of-the-line Expose monitors and applied many techniques to the newly revamped Rokit Generation 2 line. And the beneficiary? You. KRK RP monitors are still as affordable and user-friendly as ever, and now they're even more accurate.
Easy Set-Up
With the home recording enthusiast in mind, KRK has designed the Rokit RP5G2 to make adding accurate monitoring to your setup as hassle-free as possible. Because the RP5G2 is active---a.k.a. self-powered--you won't have to worry about finding or hooking up a separate, matching power amp. The active Rokit's internal amplifier ensures maximum driver efficiency for tons of crystal-clear headroom and instant studio integration. With simple volume and high-frequency controls, the RP5G2s provide enough tone shaping to adjust your monitors to different rooms and projects without being overly complicated.
Smart Shape Is A Simple Solution For Small Spaces
If you're concerned that two controls aren't enough to combat bad room acoustics. . . don't be! KRK has incorporated several simple design elements to the RP5G2 cabinet to eliminate the most common monitor placement issues. For example, rear-firing bass ports, which typically extend a speaker's low-frequency range, tend to form "boundary-coupling" when situated near a wall, resulting in over-hyped bass response. This isn't a concern with the Generation 2 Rokits, as they sport front-firing ports. Another common problem which the cabinet-design solves is diffraction. Diffraction is inherent in traditional box-shaped monitors, but the KRK RP5 G2 incorporates the same curved edges as the higher-end KRK's to virtually eliminate diffraction issues. These two clever elements result in a monitor that's more accurate and worry-free.
Improved Drivers
That classic yellow glass aramid composite woofer is still there, but it and its companion neodymium tweeter have been re-voiced for even more neutral--and hence more accurate--performance. Improved also is the tweeter's wave-guide design. High-end diffusion is even more directional, and phase problems are cut down significantly. The result is a clearer impression of those ever-important transients that can otherwise wreck recorded instruments like cymbals and acoustic guitar, and can undesirably color the "air" in a vocal track. All in all, you simply get a clearer image of your mix with the new KRK Rokits.
While the Rokits are already an amazing value, we can sweeten the deal even more. Buy an RP5G2 from zZounds, and we'll trow in an Auralex MoPad, the monitor mount pad made by the room acoustics experts. The MoPad isolates your speakers from the stand, shelf, or desk on which they're seated, ensuring as true an aural image as possible, no matter what your work space is like.
The KRK Rokit RP5G2 is the next evolutionary step in a long line of successful and respected professional and home studio monitoring products. So if you're shopping for your first studio reference monitors, trust in the name that's been trusted for decades by engineers around the world, KRK.
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