I am not sure where the low listening levels come from because we have also sold them to recording and mastering studios.
Can you please list the studios that use the Kii speakers Keith?
I am not sure where the low listening levels come from because we have also sold them to recording and mastering studios.
Latency: normal mode = approx. 90ms / low latency mode = 1030us (1,03ms)
Low Latency Mode only disables the phase correction of the whole spectrum to minimum phase.
You would use low latency for tracking , switching is on the back or via the Kii remote.
Is there any chance of them being at next year's Bristol show? Or any show in the south of England in the near future?
Are these things remote controlled or do you have to reach round the back to switch them between modes? 90ms may as well be an hour in studio terms, it renders them absolutely unusable for tracking, live mixing etc, so I guess that means any studio using them would have to switch between the fancy mode for EQing etc and then switch back to the low-latency mode to do anything to do with music creation.
Agreed Tony, I've been to a few top studies and seen nothing like the Kii's, or for that matter any high end speaker with DSP! Most studios use custom designs built into each monitoring room as in the case here.
We hope to be at next year's 'Indulgence' show at the Novotel, and they are permanently available here of course, in North London.
Keith
We'll have them here at Strictly Stereo from the middle of December, if you would like to hear a pair. We're based in Haigh just outside Wigan. 10 minutes from M61 J6 or 15 minutes from M6 J26. If you are still in Cheshire though, I would be happy to bring them to you.
The Kiis in room measurements are much better than any other speaker I have measured in this room, because of there off axis cancelling and cardioid response.
Ah, cool, they are sounding rather more interesting. I have skim-read the B&O paper. So the digital shenanigans is more a dispersion/response-extension thing?
What piqued my interest in speakers like these, was Fox's finding that the Phantom speakers she had weren't a million miles away performance wise, compared to the 800d's she has, and the phantoms were in a large space too, she should know what instruments sound like being a musician. Same with Frank (F1eng) too, he's got some experience of some large costly and well performing speakers, and found the Phantoms rather good as i remember.
Don't know how the Phantoms stack up to the Kii's though.
You heard the Phantoms Andy?
I heard Phantoms too. Twice. They are unfngbelievably awful. I mean stick a scalpel in your ear hole, twist it and bang your head with a dustbin lid awful. And then some.