KRK RP8G2 Rokit G2 Powered 2-Way Active Monitor

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 beginner 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 RP8G2 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 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. These 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 RP8G2 to make adding accurate monitoring to your setup as hassle-free as possible. Because the RP8G2 is active---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 RP8G2s 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 RP8G2 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. 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 RP8 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.

Improved Drivers
That classic yellow glass aramid composite woofer is still there, and its companion neodymium tweeter has 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 a pair RP8G2s from zZounds, and we'll throw in a set of On-Stage SMS6000 Monitor Stands. The RP8G2 monitors are big boys, as far as compact active monitors go, but with the stable, height adjustable SMS6000 stands, you'll have no problem finding the perfect home for them in your studio. As an added bonus, the On-Stage Monitor Stands isolate your speakers from sympathetic room vibrations, ensuring as true an aural image as possible, no matter what your work space is like.

The KRK Rokit RP8G2 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.

The KRK RP8G2 Rokit G2 Powered Studio Monitor gives you amazing performance and accuracy for the home or project studio. 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 Behringer C2 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)

Technical Info

Drivers:
- Woofer: 8-inch Glass Aramid Composite Woofer
- Tweeter: 1-inch Neodymium Soft Dome Tweeter with Ferro Fluid

Input: XLR, RCA & 1/4-inch TRS - 10k Ohm, Balanced / Unbalanced

Amplification: 140 Watt Bi-amp Dynamic Power, 24 dB Octave Filters

Frequency Response: 45Hz - 20kHz

Video Shielding: Yes

Dimensions (H x W x D): 15 x 10 7/16 x 13 inches

Shipping Weight: 30 lbs

140 watts bi-amp, 8" woofer.