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The KRK design team has painstakingly modeled and analyzed hundreds of monitor placement and
room acoustic situations to ensure that KRK delivers the most useful eq tools with minimal
adjustments. Room acoustics are the biggest issue in today's studios because we are not in the
perfectly built rooms now. Many great studios are just in revamped houses. We are giving you
control to correct some of the anomalies you get from these types of situations.
With the LOW CONTROL and HIGH CONTROL, we have given you 49 different combinations of eq
voicings to help you correct for your studio's acoustics to deliver more accurate monitoring. Start
with LOW CONTROL and HIGH CONTROL switches set to L4 and H4 respectively, which is flat, no
cut or boost and the –dB LEVEL ATTENUATION on 0. Set them up in your room per the information
and diagrams below. Listen to some of your favorite songs and mixes. Try different positions in
your room and placement before making eq adjustments and then adjust the eq to give you your
best listening and monitoring experience.
SYSTEM SETUP Overall system setup is crucial to avoid unnecessary room acoustic interaction. A
room's natural acoustics may alter the sound level at various frequencies due to abnormal
dampening or reflections. Follow the checklist below for more details.
1 The system setup (studio monitors and work table) should be placed within the front 1/3 of the
room. Doing so will reduce reflection buildup of peak frequencies.
2 The left and right sides of the system setup should be centered an equal distance from the left
and right walls. This will produce even mid and low frequency response and preserve stereo
imaging.
3 Avoid a listening position (your ears) that is closer than 3 feet (1 meter) from any wall. Also avoid
large objects (such as lamps or decorations) near the studio monitor and listening position.
4 Diffusers and absorption material in the corners and back of a room will help remove room
interaction by preventing reflections.
5 Carpeting will help prevent reflections from hard floor surfaces.
6 Studio monitor isolators (foam or rubber pads) will help remove low frequency coupling between
the stands and desk. Low frequency coupling will cause the stand or desk to vibrate causing
unwanted sounds.
7 A low noise floor (no outside interference from refrigerators or fans) is important to prevent the
masking of low frequency detail. Rattles due to studio monitor playback should be removed as well.
Within the system setup, the studio monitors and listening placement should be positioned in a
near field configuration as follows: The left and right studio monitors should be approximately 3 to
5 feet (1 to 1.5 meters) apart and directed at a 60 degree angle towards the listening location.
Measure the distance between the left and right studio monitors and note the listening position is
equal distance to both sides. This will form an equilateral triangle. It is important that both left and
right studio monitors are level matched. The V Series 4 is a two-way studio monitor with a tweeter
(producing high frequencies) and a woofer (producing mid and low frequencies) in one enclosure.
In between the tweeter and woofer is the acoustic axis point where the full frequency range comes
together. The ideal location for the acoustic axis point is located at ear level in the listening
position. It is acceptable to angle the studio monitors so the acoustic axis is in the correct direction.
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