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KRK ROKIT 5 Gen 4 Review (Studio Monitor)
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dasdoing
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main diference is the tweeter: https://gearspace.com/board/reviews/1429851-krk-systems-rokit-5-generation-five.html
there is some improvement in the DSP also, but nothing special
dasdoing
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that's a new series called Kreate.
we are talking about the well known Rokit series here
dasdoing
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dasdoing
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in Amir's measurements we can se the old tweeter had a big flaw around 10kHz. the goal in G5 might have been the fix.
I think the latest can be almost the same and is hard to differentiate for older models (g2 and g3) and hard to know which is the best (like the regular Porsche 911)
I remember the 5's have a little white noise and a party sound, sparkle to the highs and a punchy bass, they do, are able to play loud despite having a punchy bass
As a cheap party speaker they are great, don't cost much to replace a rokit or krea 5 if they get damaged and sound better than most logitech,creative speakers, can compete for sq with edifier
I remember the 5's have a little white noise and a party sound, sparkle to the highs and a punchy bass, they do, are able to play loud despite having a punchy bass
As a cheap party speaker they are great, don't cost much to replace a rokit or krea 5 if they get damaged and sound better than most logitech,creative speakers, can compete for sq with edifier
dasdoing
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I hope that if Amir gets a G5, he gets the 8inch.
Or krea 8 to see,hear what diffrence there is to the classic 8 and the kra 8 (or the 5" version)
Krk rookit 5's have to me always had alot deeper perception of the bass than yamaha HS5, for first studio monitors without a sub or cheap party ,multimedia speakers, KRK Rocks
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dasdoing
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HS series always sucked. Amir meassured them. too much mids. basicly the opposite of the Rokit series G1-G3 with their smiley curve.
They try to be the new NS10 (sound signature, but the ns10 has much more mids than the hs5)
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dasdoing
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yea, they tried to make "a better Ns10"
Update: Nice sound overall but one of the channels broke at 2.5 years usage at low volume, in HK only 1 year warranty and the "inspection fee" cost $100 with actual repair cost on top of that, basically means any repair will equate with a new speaker. Online search showed a lot with the same issue (back LCD screen flickers, no sound at all), and solution always seems to be a bad cap.
Conclusion on my side: budget with good sound, but turns into e-waste very soon.
Conclusion on my side: budget with good sound, but turns into e-waste very soon.
Ended up my right channel speaker have find a friend to replaced the PSU capacitor, paid him $50 for a meal and it worked, it seems with standby enabled the PSU cap is ticking to fail quite often, YMMV though as for all electronics
Any idea of value / voltage rating / brand? Unless the part was undersized to begin with, I would expect a replacement of decent quality to last many years.
update... after replacing the cap the same speaker have the same cap buldging AGAIN in 2 months... and this time it completely cannot turn on vs the rear screen flickering... I will give it once more trial on replacing the cap, I am somehow suspecting some sort of ripple filtering failure so the same speaker just kept dying..
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