The M-Audio EX66 uses a midwoofer-tweeter-midwoofer (MTM) vertical array configuration to provide optimal imaging. Traditional 2-way speaker designs can cause significant early reflections from consoles, floors and ceilings, resulting in coloration and smeared details in the audio. In the M-Audio EX66 monitor's MTM design, the interaction of the two large drivers with the tweeter channels the sound into a much narrower vertical band, thereby eliminating many of these reflection problems, say M-Audio.
The M-Audio EX66 monitor uses two separate 100W continuous power amplifiers to drive the 4-ohm woofer combination and 4-ohm tweeter separately in an audiophile-quality bi-amp structure. The low distortion at 200W per channel rounds out the M-Audio EX66 monitor's profile as a truly world-class active loudspeaker monitor.
The M-Audio EX66 monitor features high-impedance balanced analog inputs and digital inputs compatible with up to 24-bit/192kHz bitstreams. Additional features include volume control, Acoustic Space Control to optimize for room placement, a soft limiter circuit to prevent clipping, high-frequency attenuation/boost switch, mid-range switch (low-Q dip or peak) and low-cutoff switch (37Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz).
(Lee Baldock)
