The Tapco S5 studio monitor features rich, accurate sound, with excellent stereo imaging and a "sweet spot" you just won't believe possible in a monitor this affordable. It's no secret that Mackie makes some of the best sounding professional studio monitors in the world. Now that uncompromising design expertise is available at an entry-level price with the TAPCO S5 Active Studio Monitor.
Exceptional sonic performance
The Tapco S5 active studio monitors may be small, but they're designed to be transparent, producing uncolored sound for critical desktop monitoring in home recording studios, video editing suites, and home theater systems. The S5's two-way bass reflex design provides an amazingly flat frequency response and benefits from complete system integration with active crossovers, dual 60-watt power amplifiers, precision drivers (5.25-inch LF, 1-inch HF) and a custom-tuned, ported cabinet.
Adjustable, to work any room
Every room is different. Variables like size and shape, furniture, doors and windows, carpeted or wood floors, and where you sit when you listen, all combine to determine what you hear. With the S5 recording monitors, Tapco included some fine calibration controls to let you adjust the low (+2, +4 dB below 100Hz) and high (+/- 2dB above 5kHz) frequency response to correct any bad influences caused by the room. More importantly, these controls help to ensure that the great sounds you get with the S5 also sound great on your home stereo, in the car, and anywhere else your music is played.
Protecting your investment
Tapco knows people want to blast their monitors for long periods in less than laboratory conditions, so they added some extra circuitry just to keep your S5s performing their best. The S5s are tuned to maximize efficiency, but they can get hot when used in the real world. If the electronics get too hot, separate thermal switches activate and shut down the high and/or low frequency amplifiers until they cool down. An Over-excursion filter, just before the low frequency amplifier protects the woofer from shredding itself when the low-end is driven to the maximum. These extra protections ensure long life and monitors you can count on to have your back at all times. Finally, we've adding magnetic shielding to protect your computer display or television from being permanently being tweaked from the powerful magnets found inside the S5 studio monitor.
- Acoustic Performance
- Free Field Frequency Response:
- 64 Hz – 20 kHz (±3
- Lower Cutoff Frequency: –3 dB @ 64 Hz
- Upper Cutoff Frequency: –3 dB @ 22 kHz
- Sound Pressure Level @ 1 meter, 7.5 dBu into
- Balanced Input: 100 dB SPL @ 1m
- Maximum SPL Per Pair: 113 dB SPL @ 1m
- Transducers
- Low Frequency:
- 5.25 in/133 mm with steel frame,
- polypropylene cone woofer
- High Frequency:
- Wave guide loaded 1 in/25 mm silk
- dome tweeter
- Enclosure: 0.625 in/16 mm thick MDF with
- 0.750 in/19 mm MDF front panel
- Damping: Adiabatic foam
- Dimensions:
- Height: 11.3 in/286 mm
- Width: 7.6 in/194 mm
- Depth: 9.1 in/232 mm
- Weight: 17.0 lb/7.7 kg
- Amplifiers
- Low Frequency Power:
- 60 watts, 4 ohm load, 100 watts peak
- High Frequency Power:
- 60 watts, 4 ohm load, 100 watts peak
- Slew Rate: > 15 V/µs
- Distortion (THD, SMPTE IMD, DIM 100):
- < 0.035%
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio:
- Low Frequency: > 101 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz,
- unweighted, referenced to 60 watts into 4 ohms
- High Frequency: > 93 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz,
- unweighted, referenced to 60 watts into 4 ohms
- Type: Monolithic IC, Class AB
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