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Alesis Monitor Two manual

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  • Page 1

    MONITOR TWO STUDIO REFERENCE MONITOR Reference Manual © 1995 Alesis Corporation[...]

  • Page 2

    INTRODUCTION Your new Alesis Monitor Two™ Studio Reference Monitors will deliver accurate mixes in near and mid-fiel d digital and anal og studio monitoring applications. The Monitor Two offers wide frequency response, accurate transient reproduction, clear m usical detai l and imagi ng and high power handling capability. These monitors were desi[...]

  • Page 3

    INSTALLATION Like any speaker system, your Monitor Twos will work best when properly positioned in a suita ble acoustic environm ent. Achieving proper speaker placement is usually straightforward, but even with near and mid-field m onitors, speaker placement and the acoustics of th e listening room itself are too often overlooked and can become sig[...]

  • Page 4

    Speaker Placement While near and mid-fi eld monit ors are more forgiving of t he surrounding room acoustics, it is always prudent to optimi ze the listening envi ronment whenever possible. First, the user should be aware of the effect that the size of the listeni ng room can have on low frequency response. In general, the sm aller the room , the st[...]

  • Page 5

    Figure 2 Careful consideration should al so be given to the physical spacing between t he speakers and the listening posi tion. Al esis recom mends that the distance between the speakers equal the distance between the lis tener and either speaker. In other words, the listener and th e two speakers are at the three corners of a triangle having equal[...]

  • Page 6

    For acoustic purposes Alesis has closel y grouped the Monitor Two’s three drivers together which necessitates m ounting the high frequency dome driver on one side of the mid/ low frequency drivers. Therefore, your Monit or Twos are supplied as a pair of mirror im aged cab inets, called the A and B side. Either speaker cabinet can be oriented hori[...]

  • Page 7

    concerning speaker placement is about the speaker’s off axis (to the side, away from the front) amplitude and phase response. The natural laws of physics cau se all speakers having multiple drivers to exhibit some off axis response changes. This largely has to do with the way the signals from each driver combine when the distance from each driver[...]

  • Page 8

    Connections Professional grade 5-way binding pos ts are provided for external wiring back to the amplifier. This type of connector can accommodate bare or tinned wires, banana plugs and even spade lugs. A lot of hype and confusion exists about the type of speaker wires to use, most of it creat ed by the wire manufacturers themselves in an effort to[...]

  • Page 9

    Monitor Two. To do so is asking for trouble and may void your warranty. Finally, the use of a lo w power amplifier is also not recommended as it is likely to be run well into heavy clipping and distortion in an effort to get suffi cient volume. This can also lead to failures of both the amplif ier and the speaker, the latter if high frequency energ[...]

  • Page 10

    Specifications Drivers: Mineral filled polypropylene cone 10” low frequency and 5” midrange drivers 1” Natural Silk dome high frequency drivers Crossover: 1500Hz and 5kHz, asymmetrical combination of second and third order filters Frequency Response: 35 Hz - 18 kHz, ±3 dB Power Handling: 150 watts program, 200 watts peak (using EIA-426A meth[...]