Digital InnardsĪs I’ve already intimated, the KH80 shares all the familial traits - the anthracite grey-painted and smoothly rounded cabinets (a white version is also available), the triangular ports either side of the bass/mid unit, the moulded waveguide around the tweeter, the illuminated Neumann diamond badge, and the rear-panel sensitivity control and configuration switches.
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Neumann have always employed sophisticated modelling techniques to help develop their drivers and cabinets, but they have taken this to new heights in designing the KH80, particularly in optimising the new bass/mid driver’s motor and suspension for maximum linear excursion with minimum non-linear distortion characteristics. Flexible mounting arrangements are catered for with a pair of M6 threaded inserts on the back panel, coupled with a wide range of optional mounting accessories.Īt first glance the KH80’s design looks identical to that of the KH120, albeit scaled down a little, with its two-way format comprising a new long-throw 100mm (four-inch) woofer and the same 25mm ‘alloy-fabric’ dome tweeter as used in the larger models. Its seven-litre composite-polycarbonate ported cabinet measures just 233mm tall, 154mm wide and 194mm deep and weighs 3.4kg, so this new model is clearly intended for desktop applications as well as installations in outside-broadcast trucks and similar environments where space is at a high premium but sound quality is still paramount. Last year a fourth model was added to the range, the new KH80, which is easily the smallest KH monitor to date. In my humble opinion these are all superb monitor speakers that are not only genuinely worthy of that title, but which also punch well above their retail prices in terms of sound quality and engineering finesse. I reviewed the compact two-way KH120A monitor along with the KH810 subwoofer in April 2012 the sealed-cabinet three-way KH310 in October 2013 and the largest model in the range, another three-way, the KH420 in September 2015. Neumann’s development over the last decade or so of a range of high-quality studio monitor speakers - the KH range - has produced a comprehensive line-up of three monitors and three subwoofers.
The newest member of Neumann’s celebrated KH family of monitors might be the smallest, but it’s also the most technologically advanced.
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