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When it comes to high-quality sound, Digidesign strives to create
products that deliver the absolute best. To further ensure that you get
the best-sounding audio possible in your creative endeavors, Digidesign
now looks to redefine how you monitor your mixes with the Digidesign®
Reference Monitor Series RM1, a professional, bi-amplified, near-field
monitor co-developed with PMC, a world-leading professional monitor
manufacturer.
RM1 unites Digidesign’s deep expertise in digital audio with PMC’s
legacy of fine, handcrafted, cutting-edge design and meticulous
manufacturing. Together, Digidesign and PMC have created a monitor that
delivers unrivalled tonal accuracy, exceptionally low distortion,
stunning clarity, more defined bass response, and incredible dynamic
range, enabling professionals, aspiring professionals, and audiophiles
to truly hear an impeccably accurate representation of their audio
mixes at any stage.
The compact RM1 features a 5.5-inch low frequency driver and a 1-inch
ferrofluid-cooled high frequency driver, and boasts performance
comparable to much larger systems. It’s the ideal monitor for project
studios, editing suites, home studios, and mobile production vehicles.
But don’t let its small size fool you. Though the RM1 is relatively
compact in stature, it can produce higher volumes and lower bass
extension than other speakers of similar sizes — even if identical or
larger drivers are used — thanks to PMC’s groundbreaking Advanced
Transmission Line (ATL™) technology.
Because of its design, the frequency response also remains consistent
regardless of how high or low you adjust the volume, meaning you won’t
need to crank it to achieve maximum bass response. RM1 is also designed
for a wide sound dispersion, so you’ll get accurate frequency response
even when you’re listening in an off-axis position.
Features
- Professional, bi-amplified monitor
- Analog and digital inputs (up to 24-bit/96 kHz)
- Audiophile-grade, analog-controlled Class D amplifiers with high-quality
linear power supply units
- Advanced Transmission Line technology provides high sound pressure level
(SPL) and superior bass extension
- Unrivaled tonal accuracy, clarity, and dynamic range with exceptionally
low distortion
- Powerful onboard DSP engine provides:
- Extremely accurate digital crossover for pristine imaging
- Bass Port Emulation mode to emulate tonal characteristics of ported bass
reflex speakers
- Precise gain trim, low- and high-frequency adjustment, and speaker placement
settings
- Low jitter analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with low-noise clock oscillator
- Sound dispersion design maintains accurate frequency response even in off-axis
listening positions
Atl Technology
Unlike speaker systems that tend to “color” sound to make mixes sound
richer and punchier, RM1 enables you to hear sounds exactly as they are
in your mix without any deceptive tonal exaggeration, thanks to its ATL
construction. This innovative technology employs proprietary drivers,
electronics, power amps, and patented absorption materials housed
inside of a meticulously constructed cabinet, enabling the monitor to
deliver pristine, high-resolution clarity and unrivaled, accurate bass
response. This allows you to hear your recordings in their truest,
purest form to help you fine-tune mixes that translate well to any type
of audio system.
With the monitor’s superior sound accuracy, you won’t mistakenly under-
or overcompensate for pronounced frequencies and/or perceived levels in
your mix caused by speaker inaccuracies — or inadequacies. The end
result is better mixes. No worrying about getting anemic-sounding mixes
due to a speaker’s boost on the bottom end, or muddiness due to added
sizzle at the top. Your final mix will ultimately sound great on any
type of audio system, whether listeners hear it through a home theater
or stereo system, or on an iPod, car stereo, or even during their next
trip to the mall.
Onbaord Digital Signal Processing delivers pristene sound
RM1 features a 48-bit, fixed-point, digital signal-processing (DSP)
engine that manages a variety of tasks, including speaker positioning
EQ settings, trim level, Bass Port Emulation, and the complex digital
crossover, which directs what signals get sent to the monitor’s low and
high frequency drivers.
The two-way crossover features revolutionary steep and pure filter
designs for the cleanest sound possible — with virtually zero phase
shift — to ensure that signals are distortion- and interference-free.
The crossover also allows for precision optimization, providing the
best possible match between the drivers’ response curves and roll-off
rates for optimal signal transition between the high frequency and low
frequency drivers, and superb phase response over a wider listening
window.
Analog-Controlled Class D amps
RM1 employs superior, analog-controlled Class D power amplifiers that
power each driver. These specially designed amps combine the efficiency
and size advantages of a digital amplifier with the precision, control,
and sound quality of an audiophile linear amplifier, and are 92 percent
efficient as opposed to the 50-percent efficiency generally found with
Class A amps. This means more power to the drivers and less heat
generation. And they’re cheaper — and greener — to run than standard
Class A- or B-style amps.
While typical Class D amplifier designs have a load-dependant frequency
response, the amplifiers in RM1 feature a single feedback loop, which
senses the loudspeaker impedance directly. This provides extremely
accurate amplifier frequency response regardless of the reactive load
presented by the drivers, enabling the monitor to deliver higher
fidelity with lower distortion. And because of the amp’s unique analog
control, the monitor produces a flatter frequency response no matter
what the load of the driver. Whether you choose to crank the volume or
keep things down low, the sound accuracy will remain as just that —
accurate.
Amplifier performance is further enhanced by the inclusion of a linear
power supply, which provides two times the peak current headroom and
better noise isolation than typical switch mode designs.
Bass Port Emulation
If you’re used to mixing audio through ported speakers, which often
feature exaggerated coloration on the low end, hearing an accurate
representation of your mix may take a little getting used to at first.
To help guide your ears, RM1 features a Bass Port Emulation mode, which
emulates the frequency characteristics of a bass reflex speaker. This
enables you to hear how your mix “translates” to a ported speaker,
allowing you to easily switch back and forth from hearing how your mix
truly sounds with a flat frequency response to hearing how it sounds
with added bass coloration characteristics.
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Features
Features
- Professional, bi-amplified monitor
- Analog and digital inputs (up to 24-bit/96 kHz)
- Audiophile-grade, analog-controlled Class D amplifiers with high-quality
linear power supply units
- Advanced Transmission Line technology provides high sound pressure level
(SPL) and superior bass extension
- Unrivaled tonal accuracy, clarity, and dynamic range with exceptionally
low distortion
- Powerful onboard DSP engine provides:
- Extremely accurate digital crossover for pristine imaging
- Bass Port Emulation mode to emulate tonal characteristics of ported bass
reflex speakers
- Precise gain trim, low- and high-frequency adjustment, and speaker placement
settings
- Low jitter analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with low-noise clock oscillator
- Sound dispersion design maintains accurate frequency response even in off-axis
listening positions
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