zZounds' Take on KRK RP5G2 Rokit Powered G2
As a recording engineer, you need to trust your instincts, your ears, and most of all, your reference monitors. It's like this: if your speakers aren't providing you with an accurate image of your sound, you won't know what you're listening to and your mix will suffer. Investing in a pair of accurate monitors may be the most important purchase you make for your home studio, because, at the end of the day, it's the sound that matters most, right? Right.
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 RP5G2 Rokit.
KRK has become one of the most trusted names in home recording, but only after becoming a well-known success in professional circles. They've taken the engineering know-how that went into their top-of-the-line Expose monitors and applied these techniques to the newly revamped Rokit Generation 2 line. And the beneficiary? You. These KRK RP monitors are still as affordable and user-friendly as ever, and now they're even more accurate.
Easy To Set Up
With the home recording enthusiast in mind, KRK designed the Rokit RP5G2 to make adding accurate monitoring to your setup as hassle-free as possible. Because the RP5G2 is active (self-powered) you won't have to worry about finding or hooking up a separate, matching power amp. The 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.
Ergonomic Design For Home Studios
If you're concerned that two controls aren't enough to combat bad room acoustics -- don't be! KRK incorporated several simple design elements to the RP5G2 cabinet in order 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. Front-firing ports keep this from being an issue with the Generation 2 Rokits. The cabinet design also helps eliminate diffraction inherent in traditional box-shaped monitors. When sound waves hit those sharp corners, they start to bounce around and "muddy up" the sound, but the KRK RP5 G2 incorporates the same curved edges as the higher-end KRKs to virtually eliminate diffraction issues. These two clever elements result in a sound that's more accurate and worry-free than other home studio reference monitors can deliver.
Generation 2: Improved Drivers, Improved Sound
That classic yellow glass aramid composite woofer is still there, and its companion neodymium tweeter has been re-voiced for an even more neutral -- and therefore, more accurate -- performance. KRK also improved 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.
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.
While the Rokits are already an amazing value, we can sweeten the deal even more. Buy an RP5G2 from zZounds, and we'll throw 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.
Manufacturer's Description for KRK RP5G2 Rokit G2 Powered 2-Way Active Monitor
The KRK RP5G2 Rokit G2 Powered Studio Monitor takes this KRK design to new heights. All of the great stuff that Rokit's have been known for including front-firing bass port, soft-domed tweeter, glass aramid composite yellow cone are still there, but the G2 Rokit's feature refined voicing and a new curved baffle that looks great, reduces diffraction and provides even better monitoring accuracy.
Features
- Radically curved front plate design virtually eliminates diffraction distortion
- Waveguide design provides amazing detail and imaging
- Front-firing port provides low freq extension without boundary coupling
- New speaker voicing for even more accurate frequency response
- 1-inch Neodymium soft dome tweeter
- Glass Aramid Composite Cone Woofer
Even More Accurate Than Before
KRK engineers and listening panel took the Generation 2 Rokits' speaker voicing to even more accurate levels. What you hear is what you are intended to hear, coloration is not part of the spec. This performance is brought to you by drivers that are custom-designed by KRK's world-class studio monitor engineering team, for clear, low-distortion performance.
The Recessed tweeters may look the same, but they don't perform the same. KRK has designed a superior tweeter wave guide for the Rokit that provides optimal high frequency pattern control and focuses the sound outward, away from the cabinet. More conventional designs direct sound along the plane of the cabinet where waveform interaction can cause phase problems and increased diffraction. KRK knows a properly engineered high frequency wave guide is a critical component to great sound, and one key to their award winning performance.
Complete Monitor and Mic Pack Contents (Optional):
- 1 x Samson C01 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
- 1 x CAD GXL1200 Single Condenser Microphone
- 1 x Audio-Technica ATHM20 Stereo Monitor Headphones
- 2 x On Stage 7701B Tripod Boom Mic Stand
- 2 x Whirlwind MC20 Mic Cable XLR - XLR (20 Foot)
- 2 x CBI BLUC10 Ultimate Series Male XLR to 1/4-inch TRS Cable (10 Foot)
zZounds is an authorized dealer of
KRK products.
Specifications
Frequency Response 52Hz to 20kHz +/- 2.0dB
High Frequency Driver 1" Soft Dome
Low Frequency Driver 5" Aramid Glass Fiber
Cabinet Dimensions (HxWxD) 11.1" x 7.3" x 9.1"
Net Weight (each) 13.4 lbs.
Power Rating (HF/LF) 15W / 30W
Signal to Noise (HF/LF) 82dB / 90dB
T.H.D (HF/LF).05% / .02%
Input Impedance: Balanced 10kohm
Input Impedance: Unbalanced10kohm
Crossover Frequency3.0kHz
Subsonic Filter45Hz
Fuse 5mm x 20mm100V - 120V
1A-250V Slow Blow
220V - 240V
500mA-250V Slow Blow
- Dimensions and Weight in Packaging
- Black, Single Speaker, with Free Isolation Pad and Stand
- Shipping Weight: 32 lbs
- Black, Single Speaker
- Shipping Weight: 17 lbs
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Shipping Dimensions:
15 x
12 x
11 in
- Black, Pair, with Complete Monitor and Mic Pack
- Shipping Weight: 52 lbs
KRK Warranty
KRK Warranty
KRK products are warrantied for a period of one year for mechanical defects and three years for defects in amplification.
If you have additional warranty questions,
please call the manufacturer at 954-316-1580
zZounds is an
authorized KRK dealer
