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| | Features | 1.25-inch, silk-dome, high-frequency driver with oversized voice coil and rear chamber5-inch, Kevlar, long-excursion, low frequency driver with high-damping rubber surroundAcoustic Space controls optimize frequency response for your production spaceContoured front baffle with integral OptImage IV waveguideFlared rear-firing port for lower turbulence; sold separately
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| | Description | The Studiophile CX5 near-field studio monitor extends M-Audio's 20-year legacy of engineering advanced music creation solutions. Designed by our dedicated team of monitor engineers, the CX line combines proprietary driver designs, custom waveguides, seamless crossover integration and advanced Acoustic Space controls. The result is a best-in-class monitor series with excellent off-axis response, minimal distortion, an expansive soundstage and the flexibility to adapt to any production space. The Studiophile CX5 monitor brings exceptionally accurate monitoring to any acoustic environment?establishing a new benchmark in its category. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 13.0 inches | | Product Width: | 11.0 inches | | Product Height: | 16.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 12.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 16.5 inches | | Package Width: | 12.5 inches | | Package Height: | 11.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 20.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Upgrade Your Plastic Speakers To True Audiophile Speakers Aug 27, 2011
By Sam The Man
"closet geek"
I want to qualify this review by stating that I am not even close to being a high fidelity expert. (Do they even call it "High Fidelity" anymore?)
What inspired me to purchase these amazing speakers was an article entitled "Ditch the Fisher Price Speakers and Do Your Music Some Justice".
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Some perspective: I come from the vinyl age, when, in order to get "room filling, high quality sound" you had to have a room (literally) filled with a huge component chain, miles of speaker and component cable and 6 foot tower speakers.
After assembling a decent (but not expensive) stereo and CD collection in the early 90s, I lost it to a fire. As time has moved along, my music listening has moved to being computer based. The problem (and the bias from old school audiophiles who admittedly have a point) is that lossy compressed mp3s don't sound good, with an emphasis on speedy downloads for iPods, brittle sounding plastic speakers in iPod docks or attached to computers with on board sound. See the article above for more thoughts on that.
Fortunately, due to increased dual and quad core processing power, memory, and fantastic software like the J River Media engine and sophisticated hardware like separate sound cards, USB powered DAC converters, and amazing apeakers like the M-Audio CX5s you can have true audiophile quality.
The true purpose of these speakers is for referencing studio mixes for musicians, and they sound twenty times better than the average computer speaker, they ARE audiophile grade.
Of course it doesn't hurt to have some music in lossless, uncompressed formats from outlets like HD Tracks, the digital version of Chessky Records,to truly get a grasp of what is possible.
These are powered speakers and (NOTE) the price quoted above is for ONE monitor not a pair. Both have separate plugs, as each speaker is powered by a bi amp with a combined power rating of 90 Watts per channel. These are powerful,quality constructed (the cabinets are HEAVY and so thick that low frequencies don't vibrate through the floor or desk)
You don't have to spend tens of thousands to get truly amazing sounds.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Superb monitor, should cost much more. Oct 09, 2011
By Allen B. Walker
I've been listening to music through studio monitors for the last nine years, and the last six years have been through Event ASP8 monitors that cost me $1300, and are considered genuine professional monitors. I would say that my ears are now trained to the overall sound of the ASP8, so when I listen to other monitors or speakers, I automatically compare them to how the ASP8 sounds. I reject monitors and speakers constantly because of this comparison. I can no longer enjoy listening to the average home speaker now because all I hear is hyped bottom and top end. I like to hear a flat response. I expect accuracy, and nothing but a studio monitor will give me this. I sometimes like to crank up the volume, and studio monitors allow me to do so for long periods of time without creating ear fatigue. This is because of the lack of frequency hyping in the top end.
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I would say the M-Audio CX5 is a professional monitor. It sounds like the ASP8. I really like it's small foot print. I like the way it looks. I like it's heft. I like it's tuning features (which my ASP8 does not have, save for top and bottom end trim). I can't believe I got such a high quality monitor for so little money. Bargain of the year.
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These monitors are worth loads more money than what I paid for them.
 Very good-sounding, and an exceptional value Apr 18, 2012
By immersifi
OK, so these will not produce super-low bass, but that's to be expected from a speaker of this size. Nevertheless, low frequency output is pretty clean down to 50 Hz or so (at pretty high listening levels), and maybe even down to 45 Hz - below that things get rough, but again, that's not a fault of this speaker design; its limitations are borne of the laws of physics. At lower power levels, there's still more bass extension, but again, this is not meant to have response down to 20 Hz, so don't expect that.
Having said that, these offer a remarkable amount of detail for the money when used at moderate listening levels. If you were to use these in a home theater system (having the proper bass management and a good sub woofer) then these would really shine. Indeed, even if you were to use these in a 2.1 system (conventional setreo + electronic crossover and subwoofer) this would really allow these to shine (as sending everything below 60 Hz or so (or even 50)) would take much of the low frequency burden off of these and have the subwoofer perform this task (as it should be).
I have found these to be very neutral-sounding, and also rather accurate for the money. There are some very useful equalization switches around the back that allow you to compensate for a variety of potential environments, and best of all, these switches are actually useful and seem to have been designed (that is, the effects of throwing these switches...not the switches themselves) based on some pretty well thought out engineering.
The fact that they have a combination 1/4" TRS/XLR input makes them very handy in terms of interfacing to a wide variety of professional gear, and the RCA input makes it a bit easier for consumer gear to interface to them as well. However, having the TRS/XLR input is great, because even consumer audio gear (which uses RCA type unbalanced connectors) can be converted to drive a balanced line to an XLR connector. The advantages to using a balanced line are numerous and well known in the professional audio / broadcast communities, but one of the major benefits is the noise immunity of a balanced to differential input (which these have) is being able to drive a signal literally hundreds of feet with no loss of fidelity - try THAT with an RCA-type signal (better yet, don't). If you have issues with noise due to dimmers and or hum from nearby power lines in your home system, a balanced signal is a great way to eliminate such problems (all you would really need to do would be to connect a 'decent' impedance matching transformer to your outputs (on your preamp / processor or even an mp3 player via a 1/8" (3.5 mm) stereo to RCA adapter) and then a garden variety XLR microphone cable to the transfomer, and then the otehr end to the speaker.
Back to the sound quality - very smooth frequency response, solid imaging, and very low noise levels from the electronics within. These have (I seem to recall) a 60 watt amplifier for the bottom end and a 40 watt amplifier for the top; they are bi-amplified, and also feature a 4th order electronic crossover - so you are effectively getting a bi-amplified speaker (not to be confused with 'bi-wiring' used in a conventional speaker with a passive network that really gains you nothing - bi amplification is the right thing to do) but more importantly, with a dividing network that has been designed to yield the smoothest frequency response at the crossover point of the spectrum.
I would highly recommend these for use as program monitors, mix monitors, or quite frankly as main speakers - again either in a conventional setereo system (i.e. 2.0 channels), a two channel system with a subwoofer and bass management (i.e. 2.1) or a n.1 home theater system, also with proper bass management.
Mind you, the bass performance is not lackluster in the least, but again, if paired with a proper active crossover (i.e. bass management in a 2.1 or n.1 surround system) these will do you nicely. As far as use in an n.1 system goes, I would highly recommend these for use for all five channels in a 5.1 system, or for all seven channels in a 7.1 system; because their timbre would be identical, speaker-to-speaker, your chances of getting a smooth and relatively uniform soundfield improve. True, proper set up of an n.1 system is critical as are room acoustics, but these would be great paired with a preamp / processor (rather than using a receiver...which is designed to drive PASSIVE speakers, not ACTIVE ones like these), or a receiver that has preamp outputs for its n.1 channels. Also, these are great for dorm room, cottages etc where you just want something (really) good sounding that can quickly and easily be connected to an mp3 player, a smart phone, or even an audio streaming device.
Frankly, what you get at this price point is quite amazing. No, they are not 'the best' speakers out there, but to my thinking and to my ears, the fidelity they deliver for the money with which you will have to part is a solid, solid, solid value.
outstanding speakers. replaced some av40's that were no slouches. Apr 14, 2012
By S. Davis
I wanted a more robust bass, and more "space" than the av40's could give, though those were definitely not bad speakers at all. I'm running these into my desktop computer because that's what I have to work with, and if you're in the same boat, let me just offer some advice. First, be sure to buy a 10-foot cord with a y-split 1/4 tsr's on one side, and a 1/8 input for the computer on the other. Second, don't be disappointed if you crank the volume on the speakers all the way up only to discover that Windows 7 has its audio set pretty passively, even at 100%. YOu can work around this if you use Itunes by just going to the Itunes equalizer and kicking the preamp gain up to taste. Winamp does the same thing. So there are work-arounds for that (and yes, I like my music to be pretty aggressively loud, though not ear-bleedingly so). By way of comparison, Rush's Moving Pictures on the AV40's is certainly perfectly listenable and can be quite solid, but the CX5's give Geddy's bass a little more bite. I don't know if I'm interpreting what audiophiles mean by "space" correctly, but my sense is that when I listen to loud music on the AV40's, I always knew there was a top end where the speakers would start distorting, and with the CX5's, things get louder, but the speakers don't give me the same sense that they're being taxed by the effort. So that very much works for me.
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