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STUDIO MASTERS
As M&K Sound approaches its 50th Anniversary, the legendary 150 loudspeaker family continues to be the preferred choice of residential and professional customers alike. It’s hard to believe that M&K Sound will enter its sixth decade of operation next year. Even the company’s iconic S150 speakers are testament to their own enduring appeal as they celebrate their 26th birthday this year. With its undisputed and uncoloured performance characteristics, the look of the speaker has
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remained essentially unchanged over the years, though materials and manufacturing methods have evolved. The classic design of the line has always promoted audio function over form, but is compact and discreet enough to allow placement flexibility either in a studio, home cinema or living room. Never a company to rest on its laurels, M&K Sound has ploughed ahead with a line-up of SKUs to suit the whims of the studio community, custom install market and end user. The extended 150 family includes the MPS2520P active studio monitor, and both on-
wall and in-wall versions of the original classic S150 loudspeaker. With a history of challenging the consensus, M&K invented the first satellite subwoofer system in 1976 and the first powered subwoofer the following year. The 1996 Tripole surround speaker was a nifty but THX-endorsed interpretation of Lucasfilm Ltd.’s dipole design mandate, ushering in a revolutionary way of accommodating both 5.1 discrete and 4.0 matrix audio sources. More recently, the company has overhauled its reference subwoofer line to award-winning and earthquake-rendering effect with the X+ Series. The M&K S150 satellites (combined with various versions of the company’s subwoofers) have been adopted by all the major film studios at one point or another for editing, mastering and monitoring of audio, both in production and post-production settings. Lucasfilm. famously deployed M&K speakers for the entire audio workflow of the Star Wars: Episodes I – III films, and many of the Blu-ray discs we enjoy at home today earn their sonic seal of approval after review on the S150 platform. If your residential customers want to know “what the director intended”, they could do a lot worse than invest in a set of the S150s or IW150s. M&K Sound announced the arrival of the IW150 in-wall speakers in 2018. Along with
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