Similarly, if you were to do the same against monitors at their price point, I think they’d stand head and shoulders above them. If you were to blind test them against speakers a lot higher in price tag, I’m pretty sure you’d be surprised as how well they stand up. The LP-6s deliver a sound that punches well above their price point. It wasn’t quite as broad as my reference monitors, but at a fraction of the cost, these are great performers. Well, maybe not if I’d remembered the dip switches! A quick nudge of the HF trim (dip numbers 6 and 7) made quite a dramatic difference in my tests, bringing a lot more presence to the upper mid and high frequencies. It was all there but not quite as present, and once I moved away from male vocals to female, I’m pretty sure I would have pushed the top end while mixing. High frequency response was slightly lacking for instruments in the cymbal territory as were the crunchy, higher parts of electric guitar. However, the LP-6s did struggle a little as you reach further upwards. Here, when compared directly to the PMCs I could only tell the two apart because of a little extra magic dust from the PMCs. Vocal reproduction is excellent, male vocals particularly. The image is wide, not the widest I’ve heard, but there is space there, always great when you want to place instruments and tracks accurately. The overall frequency response feels very flat to me to and all of the detail is there.
I also didn’t get much in the way of port chuffing so the promises of that design have been born out. I did notice a slight flab on some heavier tracks but I’d have to say that, overall, it’s about the most controlled low-end that I’ve heard in any speaker at this price point. The bass is tamed and tight for the most part and not coloured. The excellent news is that the response across the frequency range does seem to be largely accurate. Settings wise I used the aforementioned dip switch settings for a monitor on a speaker stand less than half a meter from the wall and left everything else alone… initially anyway. Yes, I know that is unfair to compare a set of 300-quid speakers to monitors that cost a couple of grand more but what impresses me with the PMCs is their flat response, something the LP-6s are attempting to emulate, so this method should reveal how the Lone Pines stand up in that regard. At least part of the test is comparing the LP-6s to my own monitors, the two-way PMC Result6s. (They might not be great, but I know their frailties!) Then I have a group of classic tracks by various artists, again that I know in intimate detail. These are tracks that I’ve either recently been working on quite intensely, so know them in forensic detail, or mixes of music that have been around for years that I know warts and all. My tests with the LP-6 involved placing them on stands and then desktop, and then running some of my (trusted) mixes of my own music through them. So Kali claims there is no such colouration, ‘Nothing is boosted or suppressed to cover flaws or try to sound more pleasing’. You need to hear every detail when you are mixing, after all, and any colouration in the EQ will have you adjusting to compensate, giving your resulting mix an incorrect boost or cut in that area. It’s just a shame the company’s not located in ‘the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,’ but what the heck, I love them already! Value vs accuracyĭespite the price tag, Kali Audio has set out to design the LP-6 with complete accuracy in mind, as any monitor company should, of course.
The thinking is that it’s the start of their journey, just as LP-6 is the start of Kali Audio’s journey. Whitney, the highest mountain in the United States outside of Alaska, fact fans). The Southern Californian’s first release is the LP-6, the ‘LP’ standing for ‘Lone Pine’ (which is actually a small town in the Eastern Sierra that is the first port of call for climbers wishing to scale Mt. Kali Audio only launched at the start of 2018 but it already has big ambitions, a great naming philosophy and a debut monitor that seems, on the face of it, to be incredible value for money.
#THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE AUDIO DRIVER#
Driver types 6.5” woofer, 1” soft dome tweeter.Price £318 (pair) Contact Kali Audio LP-6 key features
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