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- Page 1 M O N I T O R T W O S T U D I O R E F E R E N C E M O N I T O R Reference Manual © 1995 Alesis Corporation...
- Page 2 The Monitor Two’s large SuperPort overcomes this limitation by minimizing vent turbulence at high air...
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Page 3: A Little History
Please take a moment to read this information carefully. It will help you to get the most use and enjoyment from your new Alesis monitors. A Little History In the early days of studio recording, big monitor speakers were almost exclusively used. -
Page 4: Speaker Placement
If you find your monitor system to be either light or heavy on the bottom, try moving them around within your listening room. Also, because the Monitor Two’s SuperPort™ tube is located at the rear, position the monitors at least six inches away from anything that would block it. - Page 5 Figure 2 Careful consideration should also be given to the physical spacing between the speakers and the listening position. Alesis recommends that the distance between the speakers equal the distance between the listener and either speaker. In other words, the listener and the two speakers are at the three corners of a triangle having equal length sides.
- Page 6 For acoustic purposes Alesis has closely grouped the Monitor Two’s three drivers together which necessitates mounting the high frequency dome driver on one side of the mid/low frequency drivers. Therefore, your Monitor Twos are supplied as a pair of mirror imaged cabinets, called the A and B side. Either...
- Page 7 Knowledge of this can be useful for obtaining the widest listening area. The sides of the Monitor Two having the most uniform off-axis response are shown in Figure 5 below:...
- Page 8 While this expensive wire will not hurt the speaker’s performance at all, Alesis does not subscribe to most of this hype and chooses to take an approach based on science when recommending speaker wire.
- Page 9 Monitor Two. To do so is asking for trouble and may void your warranty. Finally, the use of a low power amplifier is also not recommended as it is likely to be run well into heavy clipping and distortion in an effort to get sufficient volume. This can also lead...
- Page 10 Rubber textured laminate over 5/8” MDF with protective comers Rear vented Connectors: 5 way binding posts on 0.75” centers Dimensions: 14”W x 20”H x 14”D Weight: 34 Ib. each Monitor One, Monitor Two, SuperPort and Matica are Trademarks of Alesis Corporation 5kHz, asymmetrical...
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