M&K Sound S150 THX Ultra2 Category Speaker, Satin Black: EACH

M&K Sound’s MKS-S150 THX Ultra2 Category speaker feature the ultra low compression tweeter as used in the M&K Professional Monitors as well as in the legendary S150. It offers the same components, drivers and technologies in order to deliver an uncompromising sound quality.

THX Certified Ultra products bring the cinematic experience to larger home theatres, up to 84.95 cubic metres / 3,000 cubic feet in size.

This comes from the company universally regarded as 'The Choice of Professionals®'.

The MKS-S150 speaker redefines sound quality and performance and is still the speaker to beat when it comes to reference monitors for professional cinema sound design or stereo recording. M&K Sound builds upon that impressive legacy by updating the design with new acoustic technology refinements, taking the innovative high performance technologies from the S300 Series.

The new Danish designed high performance tweeters provide high power handling and extended linearity on a one piece heavy duty cast aluminium triple tweeter array plate and a specially constructed resonance damped tweeter magnet system for precise transient control. The MKS-S150 also features an integrated waveguide, combined with short horn load for wide dispersion and smooth frequency response.

The exclusive, custom designed M&K Sound 5.25” bass/midrange drive offers an intensely focused transducer design, being designed in house by full time engineers for more than two decades. M&K Sound alone devise the specifications for their drive units down to the very last detail, therefore their loudspeakers are not subject to the changing whims and fads of standard off the shelf drive units. The dual 5.25” woofer configuration employs a pin cushion basket design with narrow basket flange to permit close placement of two woofers on a compact baffle. Modest baffle dimensions ensure structural integrity, while eliminating destructive diffraction phenomena. A completely open cast aluminium basket structure with four solid pillars allows unimpeded airflow on both sides of the cone and around all moving parts for immediate heat dissipation with a cup spider design, ensuring absolutely free airflow. The cone geometry follows a straight line for the surface area beyond the dust cap with a small radius shape under the dust cap resulting in significantly reduced edge resonances.

Working closely, M&K Sound and the Peerless transducer team developed a breakthrough cone geometry, optimised to work in combination with a unique polypropylene based diaphragm material. The polypropylene base, infused with 20% carefully selected minerals, provides a perfect balance between cone stiffness and internal damping. As the earliest cone break up modes generally occur close to the voice coil, the advanced mathematics underlying the cone geometry provides substantial attenuation of travelling waves well before they reach the edge of the cone, resulting in significantly reduced edge resonances.

The M&K woofer features a thermally stable voice coil wound on an aluminium former. The former ensures linear damping for strict system control even at high sound pressure levels. The thermally stable voice coil, capable of operating at up to 250°C, is symmetrically mounted in a strontium ferrite magnet system to function as an overhung coil in the gap, for reliable, consistent handling of powerful transients and sustained high output. The magnet system generates a linear magnetic field across the full coil length even at maximum excursion, +/- 3.5 mm, for minimal distortion all the way up to the driver’s maximum output levels. A shielding magnet and can are added to minimise stray field emissions and to focus additional flux in the gap and ensure that the driver continues to meet its strict performance requirements for years to come.

With a mere 8.5g of moving mass, the MKS-S150's bass/mid unit is capable of lightning fast, accurate response across its entire operating range with a firm grip even on the most complicated program material. It is this extreme level of precision and effortless, natural sound reproduction that continues to make the M&K Sound 150 series the choice of professionals and enthusiasts.