System Highlights - KRK V8 User Manual

Design Goals
KRK's design goal for your V8 was to create a monitor capable of accurately reproducing sound with clarity and
accuracy. Other monitors in the marketplace tend to modify, extend, or "tilt" their response above 1 kHz to
sound more "spatial, exciting and impressive". What is not mentioned is this practice tends to make you
incorrectly balance your mixes to compensate for this effect, leading to poor "translation".
Your V8 was designed to reproduce the signal with a minimal of frequency enhancement. Rather than
attempting to defy physics, your V8 delivers unaltered high frequencies and respectable low frequency response
with exceptional accuracy from an 8" woofer in a reasonably small cabinet.

System Highlights

Ability to Translate -
ability to translate. A mix made on your V8's will translate to other environments and other monitors with no
surprises. They will perform flawlessly for years in the professional and non-professional environment alike.
Flexibility
- Your V8 monitor contains an active input circuit specifically designed for balanced or unbalanced
input signals. The audio input connector accepts XLR and ¼" phone or TRS connectors.
Active Filter Crossovers -
pass filter) These three filters work together to deliver superior linear frequency response. Active filter
crossovers generate less heat resulting in no signal drift or component variations to provide a more stable
image.
Balanced Power –
KRK's amplifier construction is proven, durable and straightforward. Output wattage is
balanced to match LF and HF driver sensitivities and power handling. Your V8 monitor uses a toroidal power
transformer for lowest possible hum and minimum noise artifacts.
No Compression -
Your V8 contains no signal compression, which artificially limits the dynamic range of the
program source found in some competing products. Although signal compression is often used to make monitors
sound louder, fuller, and to control unwanted characteristics of the raw drivers, the result is a compromised
mix. Your V8 design is uncomplicated without extras between you and your mix.
Furniture-Grade Construction
with a robust 1" thick front baffle. It is internally braced to minimize cabinet resonance. All cabinet edges and
port openings are heavily radiused to reduce edge diffractions and port flutter. Cabinet finish is a neutral
fingerprint proof gray Zolatone
Custom Made Drivers -
Your V8 carries on this tradition. A woven Kevlar
volume with one goal in mind, "minimal compromises, no surprises". Kevlar
most rigid materials that can be used in modern speaker cone construction.
An often-repeated phrase that we hear at KRK about our monitors' performance is their
Each monitor cabinet contains three active filters. (Subsonic, low-pass and high-
- The cabinetry of your V8 is constructed from ¾" medium density fiberboard
® .
KRK is renowned for using the highest performance drivers available in our products.
® LF driver was custom-designed specifically for this cabinet
® is one of the strongest, lightest,
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