KRK RP5 Rokit Powered Studio Monitor, Single Speaker

by KRK

Product Features

• 5" 2-WAY ROKIT MONITOR
• 1" NEODYMIUM SOFT DOME TWEETER WITH FERRO FLUID; GLASS ARAMID COMPOSITE WOOFER; IMP: 10?; BALANCED/UNBALANCED

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.1 x 10.7 x 12.5 inches ; 16.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 21.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002J6IM8
• Item model number: KRK RP5
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,368 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

KRK's well-known Rokit Series offers pro performance at a price you can afford. With its front-firing bass port, soft-domed tweeter, instantly recognizable glass aramid composite yellow cone, and engineering to ensure you get the best sound possible, the RP5 is a fine choice for pros and semi-pros alike.

Pro performance at a price you can afford. Click to enlarge.

RCA, Quarter-inch and XLR inputs. Click to enlarge.

KRK's glass aramid composite yellow woofer cones for articulate midrange and tight, clear low-end response.

Radius Edges
All cabinet edges and port openings are Radiuses to reduce diffraction resulting in better detail and stereo imaging.

Slotted Ports
Slotted ports reduce the port turbulence and distortion commonly found in poorly designed round ports.

Custom Made Drivers
KRK is renowned for designing high performance studio monitor drivers. The Rokit Powered is no exception. Their Proprietary Signature Yellow Woofers made of a woven glass aramid composite deliver articulate midrange and tight clear low end response.

Connection Options
With RCA, Quarter-Inch and XLR inputs, Rokit has got you covered, whatever your application.

The KRK Design Philosophy
A studio monitor is really a tool used to aurally measure the changes in an audio path. Ask any pro or semi-pro recordist what they think makes a great studio monitor and you'll get basically the same answers: accuracy, transparency, flat response, and "the truth."

Everybody is saying the same thing--they want the electrical signal going in to a monitor to be reproduced mechanically by the transducers and they want that to happen without any degradation to the original signal. Professionals need to trust a speaker to deliver their artistic vision in a way that will translate to a variety of audio mediums. How you get there from a technical stand point is by designing a speaker that eliminates or minimizes several damaging conditions. The KRK design philosophy is manifested by paying very close attention to these three cornerstones:

• Spectral Balance (Timbre)
  What people tend to think sounds good is not necessarily "flat response." A perfectly flat monitor tends to sound harsh and abrasive--technically correct but not very musical. Research shows us that a speaker with the proper spectral balance is most often considered "a great studio monitor." Spectral balance is defined by smooth on-axis response (not necessarily flat), smooth octave to octave response, and smooth off-axis response (not flat). From years of listening to feedback from some of the top engineers and producers, KRK has come to understand how a properly tuned monitor can become a valuable recording tool.
• Distortion Management
  Amplifier distortion such as intermodulation or harmonic distortion can be present in an amplifier circuit to some extent, but can really be a problem when the acoustical waveform is impacted by physical conditions, such as port turbulence and driver distortion. KRK engineers implement design concepts that eliminate or minimize these damaging conditions.
• Resonance Management
  A monitor's resonance can easily affect its performance, coloring your sound and depriving you of accuracy in monitoring. KRK design elements minimize cabinet vibration, speaker frames and cones resonating or standing waves inside the cabinet that impact the performance in a negative way.

What's in the Box
KRK Rokit RP5 Powered Monitor, AC power cord, Owner's manual

Product Description

10-09-2007 - Brand New Item. Description - KRK RP5 ROKIT 2-WAY POWERED MONITOR SPEAKER (FREQ RESP: 53 HZ20 KHZ; 5" WOOFER; 75W; DIM: .875?H X 7.25?W X 8.875?D; WEIGHT: 16 LBS)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the price, May 21, 2006

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Glass Audio lover "netgear customer" (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KRK RP5 Rokit Powered Studio Monitor, Single Speaker (Electronics)

I was looking for a pair of inexpensive computer monitors. Listened to everything in the $100-200 range at the local Frye's...yech. Rode over to my local Guitar Center and heard the Rokit 5's vs. the M Audio's. Rokits are built very well, I am still surprised they can eek out a profit. They use a soft dome tweeter, a glass fiber woofer (looks like Kevlar cones), and have a 1/4", RCA, and Balanced XLR inputs, for amazing flexibility. The box is sturdy MDF with a nice black finish, and the port is a reflex port. The box sounds great when you do the knuckle rap test. I hooked them up to a Soundblaster sound card using mini-plug to RCA cables ($8 from Radio Shack).

So how do they sound? Highly musical. Mids and vocals have a nice rich tone, very sweet and balanced. High end is a tad soft, a bit like listening to a tube amp. The tweeters are definately on the warm side, and will not sizzle your ears one bit. Keep in mind, however, if you are mixing with these speakers, your mix may end up a bit hot if you are compensating for the soft highs this speaker puts out. Low end is good considering the size, but this little speaker will not shake the room. What do you expect from a 5.25" cone? Still, an all around good balance for the price, and absolutely kills the computer speakers from creative, logitech, altec, and jbl.

My main system is VAC Avatar powering Merlin TSM's and a REL Strata III, costing around $22k total when you add everything. Heck, my AC cables cost 3x the price of these ROkits. So I am jaded when it comes time to audition computer speakers. That said, these are great for the price. You may also wish to try the Swan M200, available from newegg online, and selling for about $200 pr. Great reviews, but less features than the Rokit.

If the monitor will do double duty in a musician setup, the Rokits are really the way to go.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent studio monitor at great price point, March 15, 2008

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Nessander - See all my reviews
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After years of mixing in my amateur home studio without studio monitors (with varied success), I finally decided to try out some monitors within my budget to see if they were worthwhile. I was concerned I wouldn't be able to find anything decent under 500, but I had heard a lot of good reviews about the KRK RP5's and decided to try them out.

First off, they were impressive out of the box. They are both visually attractive and solidly built. I connected them with XLR to 1/4" cables to my Behringer 1202FX mixing board, powered them on, and played through some songs I have recorded using Logic and a Presonus Firebox.

Right from the start I was very impressed by the power and accuracy shown by the Rokits. Vocal tracks, guitars, and MIDI instruments came through very clearly and distinctly. I was also extremely impressed by the amount of bass that comes out of the 5" cones, since I was expecting them to be very light on the bottom. I have not purchased the subwoofer that one can get for these, and at this point, I don't think I will, since the music I make is not very boom-bastic. There's more than enough volume for my needs, and the speakers still sounded good when I cranked up the volume to test them out (I did not go all the way).

I have yet to make any mixes on these to see how they sound, but my first impression is very positive, and I'm extremely impressed that one can get monitors of this quality for under 300.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing price for the quality of these studio monitors, March 15, 2008

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Nessander - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

After years of mixing in my amateur home studio without studio monitors (with varied success), I finally decided to try out some monitors within my budget to see if they were worthwhile. I was concerned I wouldn't be able to find anything decent under 500, but I had heard a lot of good reviews about the KRK RP5's and decided to try them out.

First off, they were impressive out of the box. They are both visually attractive and solidly built. I connected them with XLR to 1/4" cables to my Behringer 1202FX mixing board, powered them on, and played through some songs I have recorded using Logic and a Presonus Firebox.

Right from the start I was very impressed by the power and accuracy shown by the Rokits. Vocal tracks, guitars, and MIDI instruments came through very clearly and distinctly. I was also extremely impressed by the amount of bass that comes out of the 5" cones, since I was expecting them to be very light on the bottom. I have not purchased the subwoofer that one can get for these, and at this point, I don't think I will, since the music I make is not very boom-bastic. There's more than enough volume for my needs, and the speakers still sounded good when I cranked up the volume to test them out (I did not go all the way).

I have yet to make any mixes on these to see how they sound, but my first impression is very positive, and I'm extremely impressed that one can get monitors of this quality for this price tag. Also, I haven't seen anything lower elsewhere. Although made for studio mixing, I can almost understand those people who are getting these for computer speakers, since at this price point, I'm sure they blow everything else out of the water.