The Fluid Audio FX80 Studio Monitor is a coaxial 8-inch studio monitor designed with providing the engineer with clarity, detail, accuracy, and extended low end response. Studio minded, and budget friendly, with plenty of power!
The Fluid Audio FX80 V2 Studio Monitor stays true to the original "keyhole" design, the FX enclosure has been updated with a complex radius front baffle, which not only looks pretty cool, it improves cabinet defraction. The FX80 V2 improves on Fluid's successful FX8, having have taken users feedback and improved on all points.
V2 Improvements
Fluid listened to the constructive feedback from their customers and implemented a few improvements to the FX series. The biggest being a general flatting of the frequency response. Fluid uncovered a few more EQ biquads and applied them to areas that could use flattening. The result is a more even response, optimum for mixing. The other improvement is updating the panel artwork to be a little bigger and clearer to read.
Coaxial driver
Mounted in the center of the woofer is a 25mm silk dome tweeter in a coaxial configuration. Using this technology (unique in its price range) makes it a "point source" device, meaning that all the sound emanates from a single point - not points that are 10" apart. This is crucial for improving off-axis response, but also allows for a more compact footprint cabinet.
Boundary compensation DIP switches
Sometimes the spaces where we mix aren't the most forgiving acoustically (especially if you're in a home studio). The FX series monitors come equipped with boundary control EQ switches, that allow you to compensate for spaces that may not have been "tuned" or just need to be adjusted due to their proximity to the wall behind them. There is also a guide conveniently printed on the rear panel to show how the DIP switches work, and a more detailed explanation in the user guide.
Class D and DSP powered
Another update from the Fader Series is Class-D amplification. More clean, reliable power, more headroom, and also a standalone powerful DSP integration. The digitally controlled crossover makes each speaker more consistent. The new FX series is truly a 21st Century reference monitor at home in any recording studio.
Imaging and Depth
It's one thing to put high quality speaker drivers in a cabinet with an amplifier and call it a great speaker. But for a transparent reference monitor, that is only the beginning. Painstaking crossover design and listening sessions were undertaken to optimize not only a flat on-axis frequency response, but a depth of soundstage that has become the hallmark of Fluid Audio monitors. This ensures that your mix will not only sound great on your FX speakers, but will translate to speaker systems outside the studio as well.
Fluid Audio FX80 Studio V2 Monitor Specifications
- Frequency response: 35Hz-22kHz (+/- 3dB)
- Crossover frequency: 2.4kHz
- Low-frequency amplifier power: 60 watts
- High-frequency amplifier power: 50 watts
- Signal-to-noise: 90dB (typical A-weighted)
- Polarity: Positive signal at + input produces outward LF one displacement
- Input impedance: 20 k ohms balanced, 10 k ohms unbalanced
- Input sensitivity: 85 mV pink noise input produces 95dBA output SPL @ one meter with volume control at maximum
- Power: 100V-240V ~50/60 Hz
- Protection: RF interference, output current limiting, over temperature, turn-on/off transient, subsonic filter, external mains fuse
- Cabinet: Vinyl-laminated MDF
- Size (single monitor): 13.4"x10"x11.6"
- Weight (each): 17.2 lbs
Fluid Audio FX80 V2 Studio Monitor Features
- Fluid Audio FX80 V2 Studio Monitor
- IEC Power Cable
- Manufacturer Warranty
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