Kali Audio IN-UNF Users’ Guide
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About Your Speakers
Congratulations on your Kali Audio IN-UNF studio monitoring system! The IN-UNF is a unique prod-
uct that creates a professional mixing environment at arm’s length, allowing you to work effectively
in places where space and the ability to make noise are at a premium. With the IN-UNF, if you have
space to sit down, you have space for a studio.
What Does IN-UNF Mean?
The IN-UNF is part of our Project Independence series of loudspeakers, and it shares its concentric
midrange and tweeter with the IN-5 and IN-8. These loudspeakers offer an upgrade from tradition-
al 2-way loudspeakers, giving producers and music makers a world-class monitoring solution at an
excellent price.
UNF
stands for “Ultra-Nearfield.” The IN-UNF achieves reference level of 85 dB at just .8 meters, or
arm’s length. So you experience the mix to the fullest possible extent from the listening position, but
you don’t bother others around you.
Features
Desktop Monitoring and Boundary EQs
The IN-UNF has been developed specifically as desktop monitoring system. As such, the IN-UNF’s
tuning takes reflections from your desk into account, providing neutral sound in what is normally a
difficult acoustic environment. Combined with the boundary EQs, which can be adjusted for the sys-
tem’s proximity to walls, this allows for reliable monitoring in a variety of tight spaces.
A full diagram of the boundary EQs and other user-definable parameters can be found on pages 14-
17 of this manual.
3-Way Coincident Architecture
The IN-UNF uses the same 4-inch mid-range driver and 1-inch soft dome tweeter as the IN-5 and IN-
8. The mid-range driver and the tweeter are coincident, meaning that they share the same acoustic
center and that they are phase aligned. You might have heard the terms “coaxial” or “concentric” to
describe this arrangement. Those terms are technically correct, but ignore the time-aligned nature of
Project Indepdence’s midrange and tweeter.
Substantial work was done to optimize the mid-range driver not only for its own acoustic perfor-
mance, but also for its role as the waveguide for the tweeter. The shape is precisely engineered to
allow for controlled directivity at mid range to tweeter crossover, ensuring accurate summing both
on- and off-axis. Excursion on the midrange is limited to less than 1mm peak to peak, so that the os-
cillation of the mid-range does not have a negative effect on the response of the tweeter.
