Design Goals
KRK’s design goal for your V-88 was to create a monitor capable of accurately reproducing sound with clarity and accuracy. Other monitors in the marketplace tend to modify, extend, or “tilt” their response above 1 kHz to sound more “spatial, exciting and impressive”. What is not mentioned is this practice tends to make you incorrectly balance your mixes to compensate for this effect, leading to poor “translation”.
Your V-88 was designed to reproduce the signal with a minimal of frequency enhancement. Rather than attempting to defy physics, your V-88 delivers unaltered high frequencies and excellent low frequency response with exceptional accuracy from dual 8” woofers in a reasonably small cabinet.
System Highlights
Ability to Translate - An often-repeated phrase that we hear at KRK about our monitors’ performance is their ability to translate. A mix made on your V-88’s will translate to other environments and other monitors with no surprises. They will perform flawlessly for years in the professional and non-professional environment alike.
Flexibility - Your V-88 monitor contains an active input circuit specifically designed for balanced or unbalanced input signals. The audio input connector accepts XLR and ¼” phone or TRS connectors.
Active Filter Crossovers - Each monitor cabinet contains three active filters. (Subsonic, low-pass and high- pass filter) These three filters work together to deliver superior linear frequency response. Active filter crossovers generate less heat resulting in no signal drift or component variations to provide a more stable image.
Balanced Power – KRK’s amplifier construction is proven, durable and straightforward. Output wattage is balanced to match LF and HF driver sensitivities and power handling. Your V-88 monitor uses a toroidal power transformer for lowest possible hum and minimum noise artifacts.
No Compression - Your V-88 contains no signal compression, which artificially limits the dynamic range of the program source found in some competing products. Although signal compression is often used to make monitors sound louder, fuller, and to control unwanted characteristics of the raw drivers, the result is a compromised mix. Your V-88 design is uncomplicated without extras between you and your mix.
Furniture-Grade Construction - The cabinetry of your V-88 is constructed from ¾” medium density fiberboard with a robust 1” thick front baffle. It is internally braced to minimize cabinet resonance. All cabinet edges and port openings are heavily radiused to reduce edge diffractions and port flutter. Cabinet finish is a neutral fingerprint proof gray Zolatone®.
Custom Made Drivers - KRK is renowned for using the highest performance drivers available in our products. Your V-88 carries on this tradition. A woven Kevlar® LF driver was custom-designed specifically for this cabinet volume with one goal in mind, “minimal compromises, no surprises”. Kevlar® is one of the strongest, lightest, most rigid materials that can be used in modern speaker cone construction.