| Mackie HR824 Details
Active technology for unflinching studio monitor accuracy. Exotic acoustic technology makes them possible. Mackie's advanced manufacturing makes them affordable. Why compromise your creative product to anything less? It's the only part of your studio that you actually hear. That's why the Mackie HR824 has been meticulously designed to be a completely neutral instrument for the analysis of your creative output. And why you shouldn't compromise your work with anything less.
The Mackie HR824 in action really is a revelation. The stereo sound field is wide, deep, and incredibly detailed. High frequencies and midrange are clean and articulated. Low frequencies are no more or less than what you recorded -- you can actually hear the distinct tonal qualities (and harmonic quantities) of a particular bass instrument -- instead of just a "generic" bass note. Most important, the sweet spot is a broad, three-dimensional area that gives you room to move up, down and across the console. In short, instead of having its own distinctive "sound," the Mackie HR824 sounds like the outputs of your mixer.
Every Mackie HR824 off the line meets the same specifications - as it is stated in a signed certificate with each speaker - so you can buy any number of them and be assured of an accurate, consistent performance. This goes beyond quality control--an engineer sits with an oscilloscope checking every Mackie HR824 to ensure that each one works and plays well with others. And yes, the frequency graph IS actually that flat--it's not a mistake, ±1.5dB from 39Hz on through 22.5kHz, and each unit is within 0.5dB of the rest. There is absolutely nothing you will hear through these speakers that wasn't there when you recorded it. If you need speakers that add coloration to the music you are recording, you might want to consider a career in karaoke.
Mackie HR824 Features
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Provides lots of bottom end and comfortable high end for long sessions of general mixing
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Extremely even dispersion for wide mixing sweet spot
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Non-fatiguing through hours of use-1 inch alloy dome tweeter’s smooth response allows hours of pain-free monitoring
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1-inch waveguide-loaded HF transducer-its logarithmic wave guide allows the high frequency dispersion pattern to match that of the bass transducer for a seamless midrange transition, eliminating audible anomalies that can occur at the crossover point
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Non-resonant, H-braced cabinet with adiabatic foam damping
Mackie HR824 Specifications
- Free Field Frequency Response: 39 Hz–20 kHz, ±1.5 dB
- Lower Cutoff Frequency: –3 dB @ 37 Hz
- Upper Cutoff Frequency: –3 dB @ 22 Hz
- Sound Pressure Level @ 1 meter, 7.5 dBu into Balanced Input: 100 dB SPL @ 1m
- Max SPL Peak Per Pair: 120 dB SPL @ 1m
- Transducers
- Low Frequency: 8.75" (222 mm) with die-cast magnesium frame, mineral-filled polypropylene cone
- High Frequency: 1" (25 mm) viscous edge-damped aluminum alloy dome with ferrofluid cooled voice coil
- Passive Radiator: 6" x 12" (152 mm x 305 mm) mass-loaded elliptical flat piston composed of aluminum composite with variable thickness filleted edge rubber surround
- Amplifier
- Low Frequency Power: 150 watts, 4Ù load 350 watts peak
- High Frequency Power: 100 watts, 6Ù load 210 watts peak
- Slew Rate: >35V/ìs
- Distortion (THD, SMPTE IMD, DIM 100): <0.035%
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio: >102 dB referenced to 100 watts into rated load
- Type: FR Series Class AB
- Electronic Crossover
- Crossover Type: Modified Linkwitz-Riley, 24 dB/octave
- Crossover Frequency: 2000 Hz
- Sensitivity: 0 dBu nominal
- Input Impedance: 20 kÙ, balanced bridging
- Compressor: Independent high and low frequency overload detection
- Equalization
- Acoustic Space EQ: Flat, –2 dB, –4 dB @ 100Hz, shelving
- Low Frequency EQ: –3 dB @ 37 Hz 2nd-order Transitional high-pass filter –3 dB @47 Hz 4th-order Chebyshev high-pass filter –3 dB @ 80 Hz 4th-order Butterworth high-pass filter
- High Frequency EQ: ±2 dB @ 10 kHz, shelving
- Line Input Power
- US: 120 VAC, 60 Hz
- Europe: 230 VAC, 50 Hz
- AC Connector: 2-pin IEC 250 VAC, 16 A male
- Power Consumption: 135 watts with music, loud mix 18 watts quiescent (idle) 8 watts in standby mode
- Enclosure: 3/4" (19 mm) thick MDF with 1" (25 mm) MDF front panel, internal H-brace
- Damping: Adiabatic foam
- Waveguide: Cast zinc
- Dimensions (HxWxD): 15.75" x 10.00" x 12.20" (400 mm x 254 mm x 310 mm)
- Weight: 33.6 lbs (15.2 kg)
Mackie HR824 Applications
What We Think
The HR824 is in use in tons of studios around the world for a reason, flat response and tells you what’s going on in the mix. I have found translation with the HR824’s to be easy to achieve, and concerning near field monitors they are very easy to work with and tell you the whole story top…to bottom. I use the HR824 every day in my personal studio and they have never let me down. - Warren Dent, Front End Audio |
