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KRK's glass-aramid cone technology ensures solid performance and incredible accuracy!

KRK's Rokit G2 (Generation 2) powered studio monitor is designed to give amazing performance and accuracy for the home or project studio. The G2 Rokit studio monitor has radically curved edges which virtually eliminate diffraction and provides a wider sweet spot. The Rokit G2 monitor also features a great looking cabinet with a front-firing bass port and KRK's trademark yellow glass-aramid composite woofer and soft-domed tweeters. Dual high-power amplifiers in each speaker and active crossovers provide smooth and accurate reproduction. The Rokit monitor has the most accurate response curve in its class ensuring that you hear all of the details in your mix.

The KRK RokitG2 Series takes value-priced monitors to a new performance level. All of the great stuff that Rokit monitors have been known for (front-firing bass port, soft-domed tweeter, glass-aramid composite yellow cone) are still there, but the G2 Rokit's feature refined voicing and a new curved baffle that looks great, reduces diffraction and provides even better monitoring accuracy.

Welcome to the all new Generation 2 RoKit Powered

Studio Monitor Series from KRK Systems. For years the Rokit series has been a popular choice for accurate monitoring in studios large and small. Now the all new Generation 2 Rokit monitor provides a new standard for even better performance and accuracy, raising the bar once again.

No Pain With Gain

Why compromise gain structure to achieve a comfortable listening level? As musicians and recording people themselves, KRK asked that question too. So each Generation 2 Rokit monitor comes with an Input Volume Control that provides an adjustable gain range from +6dB to -30dB. Just another way Rokit lets you focus on your mix, and not on compatibility concerns.

Catch A Wave, For A 3D Mix

Recessed tweeters may look the same, but they don't perform the same. KRK has designed a superior tweeter wave guide for the Rokit that provides optimal high frequency pattern control and focuses the sound outward, away from the cabinet. More conventional designs direct sound along the plane of the cabinet where waveform interaction can cause phase problems and increased diffraction. KRK knows a properly engineered high frequency wave guide is a critical component to great sound, and one key to KRK's award winning performance.

You've Got Connections

At KRK, the focus is your mix. But it doesn't stop at creating accurate monitors. KRK appreciates the need for monitors that not only sound great but work easily into your particular set up. That's why you'll find plenty of input options with your Rokit, sure to accommodate any studio environment. So if it's RCA, quarter-Inch (balanced/unbalanced) or XLR inputs you require, Rockit has got you covered.

Even More Accurate Than Before

KRK took a great monitor series and made it better. KRK's engineers and listening panel took the Generation 2 Rokit's speaker voicing to even more accurate levels. What you hear is what you are intended to hear, coloration is not part of the spec. This performance is brought to you by drivers that are custom-designed by KRK's world-class studio monitor engineering team, for clear, low-distortion performance.

Take Control

While your Generation 2 Rokit leaves the factory voiced to demanding specs, KRK also knows that no two rooms "sound" the same. As such, each Rokit comes equipped with a High Frequency Level Control. This feature provides specific adjustment of high frequency output most commonly affected by room acoustics. It's just one extra level of control that KRK gives you to ensure the most accurate mix for your particular room's acoustics.

Don't Be Square, Curves Ahead

The new Rockit monitor looks different, so it can sound better, and in a wider "sweet spot". Traditional rectangular speakers suffer from diffraction as sounds leaving the edge of the cabinet are reflected back into the original sound field, and at different time intervals. This phase distortion creates a "narrow" or boxy" sound. The Generation 2 Rokit monitor series eliminates this issue with radically engineered curved surfaces,
so diffraction is virtually eliminated. Simply put, you'll get better sound in a wider area.

Let's Be Up Front

Take a look at competitive monitors and you'll find ports on the back of the cabinet. These rear-firing ports tend create bass coupling with walls and corners amplifying low frequency information which will color your mix. The superior design of the KRK Generation 2 Rokit monitors include front-firing ports, which are just the right shape and taper to reduce port turbulence. You'll appreciate the clean and accurate bass performance, this approach delivers, even at high SPLs.

Power Up!

A great sounding monitor doesn't stop with a great cabinet and custom drivers. KRK's true bi-amplified amplifier system provides discrete low-distortion power for each driver. While the active crossover systems provide smooth and accurate frequency response, and again, accurate diffraction control.

Note: Monitors are sold as singles.

Features

  • Radically curved front plate design virtually eliminates diffraction distortion
  • Waveguide design provides amazing detail and imaging
  • Front-firing port provides low frequency extension without boundary coupling
  • New speaker voicing for even more accurate frequency response
  • 1" Neodymium soft dome tweeter
  • Glass-aramid composite cone woofer
  • Frequency response: 45Hz - 20kHz
  • Peak SPL 106dB

Even at this low price, Rokits offer a balanced mix with clarity and detail — let a Rokit put your mix in the pocket.

Rokit Powered 8 Generation 2 Specifications:

  • Drivers: Woofer: 8" Glass-aramid composite woofer
  • Tweeter: 1" neodymium soft dome tweeter with ferro fluid
  • Input: XLR (3-pin), RCA & 1/4" TRS - 10k Ohm, Balanced / Unbalanced
  • Amplification: 140 Watt dynamic power bi-amp, 24 dB octave filters
  • Frequency response: 45Hz - 20kHz
  • Video shielding: Yes
  • Dimensions (H x W x D): 15" x 10 7/16" x 13" , 38.1cm x 26.5cm x 33cm
  • Shipping Weight: 30 lb. (15 Kg)
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Great transparent sound

| Review By: Bartleye | 1 week, 1 day ago

0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Features:

Inputs include XLR TRS and RCA - great functionality!

 

Volume and HF attenuation is fantastic as well.   

Quality:

Sounds is absolutely fantastic.

 

Bass response is fast, higs are clear - sound is almost perfectly flat.

Value:

For the price- the value is outstanding - these monitors get loud and feel like quality product.

Overall:

These are a great option for pro or amatuer work - I use these in HD video editing and they are way overkill - great speakers - I find myself wanting to just listen to music on them instead of doing my work ...

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
professional
Style of music you play:
Rock / video editing
Where you live:
Greenville NC

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Amazing

| Review By: Bobby Tagoona | 1 week, 5 days ago

0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Features:

has everything you need to easily hook it up.

an xlr input and an trs input.

a volume control and a hf input level.

Quality:

theyre extremely rugged.

theyre very heavy! and they dont seem like they will break in the next few years!

theyre very very loud, they sound amazing.

 

if youre not doing any mixing where you need deep sub bass like dub step or dance or bass heavy metal these will do it for you, they will produce the bass for those genres, just probably not as much as you want them to.

Value:

i love em, im so glad i didnt go with anything else! amazing monitors!

Overall:

these monitors are amazing. i have never heard music pronounced as clearly as these monitors display them. just amazing.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
5 years engineering
Style of music you play:
rock, acoustic, punk
Where you live:
Canada

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Very true to your artifacts and flaws.

| Review By: J White | 3 weeks, 5 days ago

0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Features:

The units come standard with HF cut switches and volume bias, the rest is your input stages. I found the 8's to be very high frequency focused, so the high switches got some use out of me. Simple and straight to the point, if I had anything to say.

Quality:

Strong build, high quality aesthetics and dead useful series for beginning mixing or home theater. Impresses clients quickly, I might add.

Value:

Great for the price if you're looking for an abrupt boost in monitoring quality without having to re-mortgage the house.

Overall:

I found the monitors too high mid focused for my tastes, but very revealing for compression artifacts and an almost unforgiving character that made this series a must for reference mixing. The old sine wave trick showed where I had some problems with my room, these beasts have some low end packed into them! You really have to back away to hear what the subbass is doing though, I expected deeper character.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
Mixing for 5 years, guitar for 8.
Style of music you play:
All kinds.
Where you live:
OK

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1121820

They are SOOOOOO AMAZING!

| Review By: Jerome Harris | 5 months, 2 weeks ago

2 people out of 4 found this review helpful

Features:

They are behemoths of a studio monitor... Excellent sound quality.

Quality:

100% professionally pure sound.

Value:

Need i say more.. They are excellent!

Overall:

Worth every penny.. Are gigantic. And sound incredibly detailed.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
Music Producer
Style of music you play:
Hip Hip
Where you live:
Texas

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1102116

Simply Amazing

| Review By: Carlos Navarro | 6 months, 1 week ago

7 people out of 9 found this review helpful

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I studied Studied Music Production with Berklee College of Music, and I just bought this amazing monitors. They are incredible, the redisign is genius, the sound is perfect, you get to hear the whole range as fat as it gets. The quality of the material are amazing, and the perfomance even better.

I'll definetly recomend this for a serious and on budget producer.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
Music Producer
Style of music you play:
Rock Pop
Where you live:
Panama

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1098460

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