KALI AUDIO IN-8 Studio Monitor User’s Guide
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About Your Studio Monitor
Congratulations on your Kali Audio IN-Series Studio monitors! These monitors were de-
signed to deliver exceptional accuracy in all sorts of recording, mixing, and production
applications. The unique coincident architecture of the midrange and tweeter make the
IN-8 an extraordinarily innovative system. Combining reference level accuracy, very low
distortion, and wide bandwidth with a hyper-realisitic 3-D image, the IN-8 will reveal an
exceptional level of detail in every mix.
Where does “IN” come from?
The official name of this product line is “Project Independence.” Kali names all of our
product lines after towns in California. Independence is a town in the Eastern Sierra. On
the map, it is “one up” from Lone Pine. As the IN-Series shares many components with,
and offers many improvements over, our Lone Pine series of monitors, we thought it was
a fun way to distinguish the two products.
Features
3-Way Coincident Architecture
The IN-8 features an 8-inch woofer, a 4-inch mid-range driver, and a 1-inch soft dome
tweeter. The mid-range driver and the tweeter are coincident, meaning that they share
the same acoustic center. You might have heard the terms “coaxial” or “concentric” to de-
scribe this arrangement. Those terms are technically correct as well.
Because of the coincident placement of the mid-range and tweeter, and the crossover of
the woofer to the mid-range (330 Hz,) the IN-8 is an acoustic point source. This gives it an
ideal directivity characteristic for a studio monitor. You will be able to hear a very lifelike
stereo image, with details placed clearly and consistently. Off-axis lobing that is unavoid-
able in a 2-way system is virtually eliminated with the IN-8.
Substantial work was done to optimize the mid-range driver not only for its own acoustic
performance, but also for its role as the waveguide for the tweeter. The shape is very pre-
cise 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 oscillation of the mid-range does not have a negative effect on
the tweeter.
