Mackie MR524

Mackie MR524 - 5-inch Powered Studio Monitor | Make Your Mixes Sound Flawless Anywhere

Unrivaled Precision and Clarity, Born for Professional Mixing

Since its inception, Mackie has set the industry standard for professional studio monitoring. The MR series proves that even affordable speakers can meet the demanding requirements of professional studios. The new Mackie MR524 carries on this proud tradition, featuring an exclusive logarithmic waveguide design and adjustable acoustic space control, delivering enhanced stereo imaging and astonishing clarity. Whether you are a content creator, musician, or audio engineer, this professional studio monitor allows you to create professional mixes that sound flawless on any playback device. It's not just a tool; it's a reliable partner that ensures your work is precisely conveyed, with its flat frequency response and accurate mix monitoring capabilities, letting you hear every detail.

The core value of the MR524 lies in its exceptional Mix Translation capability, meaning that a mix that sounds great on the MR524 will sound equally excellent on headphones, car stereos, or any other system. With precise Acoustic Space Control, you can compensate for the speaker's placement (such as near a wall or in a corner), ensuring the flattest and most accurate low-frequency response in any room. All of this is designed to provide you with a trustworthy monitoring environment, allowing you to make every mixing decision with confidence.

Product Features

• Exceptional Mix Translation: Designed to deliver accurate, flat sound reproduction, ensuring your work sounds faithful and excellent on any playback system.
• Logarithmic Waveguide Design: Mackie's proven exclusive technology provides an ultra-wide dispersion angle, enhanced stereo imaging, and an extremely wide listening sweet spot.
• Precise Acoustic Alignment: Delivers incredibly balanced sound across the entire frequency range, from deep lows to crisp highs, all with seamless clarity and transition.
• High-Performance Transducers: Features a 1-inch silk-dome tweeter for fast transient response and vocal clarity; a 5.25-inch polypropylene woofer delivers responsive, dynamic low-frequency response.
• 50W Class A/B Bi-Amplification: High-performance Class A/B amplifiers independently power the high and low-frequency drivers, providing ample headroom and extremely low distortion.
• Adjustable Acoustic Space Filter: Optimized for your room's acoustic environment, offering three settings to maintain the flattest frequency response whether the speaker is placed near a wall, in a corner, or free-standing.
• High-Frequency Filter (HF Filter): Provides gain or attenuation options (±2 dB) to compensate for room acoustics that are too dull or too bright, ensuring sonic neutrality.
• Professional Cabinet Design: The all-wood cabinet is not only robust and elegant but also features custom internal bracing that significantly reduces cabinet resonance and distortion, while enhancing low-frequency response.
• Acoustically Optimized Interior: The cabinet interior is filled with professional acoustic damping material, effectively eliminating unwanted internal reflections for cleaner, tighter sound.
• Flexible Input Options: Equipped with balanced XLR, balanced 1/4" TRS, and unbalanced RCA inputs for easy connection to virtually any professional or consumer audio source.
• Expandable Low-End: Pair with the Mackie MRS10 studio subwoofer for even more powerful and deep low-frequency extension, a perfect combination for electronic music, hip-hop, and film sound production.

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