MAudio Studiophile Powered Subwoofer (1x8 in.)

Studiophile Monitors -- The Affordable New Standard in Reference Monitoring
You can have all the best gear in the world and still turn out inferior mixes unless you have monitors that tell your ears what's really happening. With that in mind, their design team set out to prove that world-class reference monitors don't have to cost a fortune. The result is M-Audio's affordable new Studiophile line of studio monitors, delivering exceptional quality at amazingly affordable prices. Choose from the SP-8B with 8-inch woofer or the bookshelf-sized SP-5B with 5-inch woofer. Add the optional SP-8S subwoofer to either model and you've got all the bass you need to rattle the rafters.

Why Studiophile Monitors
The key to the Studiophile line's accurate sound is the synergistic design and integration of all elements, thus providing superior performance and fidelity over component systems. Specially designed network and power amplifiers properly distribute low, mid, and high frequencies to reduce distortion and power loss. They've further optimized the active circuitry to deliver flat frequency response, smooth transition in the crossover region, and maximized power handling.

M-Audio's engineers also had a few other tricks up their sleeves. The silk tweeters are swivel-mounted, allowing you to adjust their position for ultimate control over imaging and sweet spots. Their tweeters also incorporate magnetic shielding to minimize reaction time, as well as ferro-fluid and internal damping technologies… read more to minimize resonance. The woofers feature a magnetically shielded mineral-filled polypropylene cone with a high-temperature tolerant voice coil and damped rubber surround. And our cabinet designs also produce amazing bass for these enclosure sizes, thanks to a Sub-Frequency Port designed to discharge extreme low frequencies. Each of these features alone is important-and they all add up to superior sound.

The Studiophile series is based on the same philosophy that has been so successful for the Delta soundcard line: Make professional, reliable, well-crafted audio equipment that anyone can afford and people will use it.

Bass You Can Feel
While the SP-8B and SP-5B offer as much or more bass response as you'll find in any monitors of similar size, the addition of an SP-8S subwoofer puts 120 watts of truly bone-shaking bass in your face. In fact, so many consumers have subwoofers that you're not really mixing accurately without having a sub yourself. M-Audio's unique Stereo Bass Management System splits the signal at the variable crossover frequency, routing everything below to the sub and everything above to the mains. The SP-8S is so affordable that it also makes an excellent companion to other monitors as well.

What's Stereo Bass Management
When subwoofers are added to many systems, all frequencies are routed to both the main monitors and the sub. The sub typically has a low-pass filter to roll off the highs -- as does the SP-8S. The problem is that both the main monitors and the sub are still trying to put out the same low frequencies, thereby compromising fidelity. This Stereo Bass Management System solves that and delivers optimal quality. The SP-8S accommodates the stereo outputs from your mixer, and your main monitors then connect to outputs on the sub. The SP-8S's internal crossover network splits the signal at a user-defined crossover frequency (50-180Hz), routing everything below it to the internal sub and everything above it the main outputs. This significantly improves fidelity because the sub and mains aren't tripping over each other to reproduce the same frequency-and each component only has to reproduce frequencies to which it is ideally suited. read less