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Kali Audio, founded in January 2018 by five former JBL Professional veterans, is a studio monitor and loudspeaker manufacturer designed and engineered in Southern California, with headquarters at 2207 East Chevy Chase Drive, Glendale, CA 91206, located in Burbank's historic audio district surrounded by Hollywood studios and professional audio manufacturers. Co-founded by John Melikyan (President & Co-Founder), Charles Sprinkle (Director of Acoustics & Founding Partner), and Nathan Baglyos (Director of Sales & Marketing), the company emerged from a team of professional audio industry's most passionate individuals who collectively possess responsibility for some of the most successful loudspeaker products of the last three decades. Kali Audio's founding principle centers on delivering the best possible value through engineering-focused research and development, creating innovative studio monitors that present exceptional performance within any budget. The company's product portfolio includes multiple California-named series: the debut Lone Pine Series (LP-6 and LP-8 2-way powered monitors launched May 2018), the IN Series featuring unique coaxial midrange and tweeter designs in 3-way configurations, and the Santa Monica Series representing their most advanced studio monitors. Operating in a creative, experiment-heavy environment that emphasizes exploration of ideas, Kali Audio has rapidly established itself as a recognized name in affordable, high-performance studio monitors for professional audio applications, serving both consumer and professional markets with loudspeakers and related audio technologies designed to democratize access to reference-quality monitoring solutions.
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Features a three-way coincident design for precise sound dispersion and minimal off-axis lobing.
Includes DSP tuning with customizable parametric EQ, delay, and trim settings via USB/Ethernet.
Offers wide frequency response (45 Hz to 21,000 Hz) and low distortion under 0.05%.
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