iLoud Precision series represents another breakthrough in nearfield monitoring from the company that revolutionized compact monitors with iLoud Micro Monitor and iLoud MTM. The Iloud Precision 6, a 2-way 6.5” is a handmade works of sonic art and reflects IK’s 25+ years of expertise in loudspeaker design and digital signal processing, delivering a level of sonic detail that beats speakers at three times the price, with unique DSP-based features and software workflow enhancements that can’t be found anywhere else.

Your studio monitors – while not as exciting as your plugin synths, keyboards and even the computer you use – are the most important item in your production armoury. Being able to hear mistakes in your mixing – which good monitors will reveal – means you can sort them out. These iLoud Precision 6s, the middle monitors in the new Precision range, promise to help you do this in two ways. First, they have a great set of specs. They span a wide frequency range (37Hz – 30kHz) with very little variation in colour across it (a +/- 1 dB accuracy) which means that the response is flat. ‘Flat’ means ‘good’ as if it was enhanced, say, in the bass region, you’d pull back on the bass when mixing resulting in a bass-lite mix. IK’s specs are so good in this regard that it says they match speakers costing three to four times as much. Secondly, these speakers take into account the room they sit in. Unless your room is acoustically treated to a high spec, it will impact on your speakers, changing that frequency response. These speakers employ the ARC System of calibration via a piece of software called X-Monitor to auto-adjust to your room. Connect the included MEMS measurement mic, and after a series of sonic tests, the Precisions tune themselves to deliver a flatter response – see below for more detail. Basically, if your room is causing a notch or peak in the response through reflections or absorptions, the speakers adjust their response to effectively iron it out. Again this is a feature you would normally expect to find in much more expensive monitors – the excellent and pricey Genelec Smart Active Monitors, which we have tested and lusted after, being the main ones that spring to mind.

iLoud Precision includes X-MONITOR: an advanced control application for Mac and Windows. X-MONITOR allows for extended acoustic space setups, assists with the ARC calibration, displays before/after in-room frequency responses, and switches among various virtual monitoring voices to emulate the most iconic studio monitors of all time, letting you audition your mix on different reference systems with just one pair of speakers.

iLoud Precision’s LED-enabled rear controls allow quick and easy setup in any situation, from project studio to live console to immersive audio rig. Each comes with 4 high-performance isolation pods to tame the propagation of unwanted vibration and resonance to the supporting surface, plus an optional hardware remote control to quickly switch between 4 voicing options or other handy functions like ARC on-off, mute or dim directly from the mix position.

Each iLoud Precision is handcrafted in Italy and individually calibrated to exact specifications during the quality control phase to ensure perfect unit-to-unit consistency. Every single monitor is truly a sonic work of art, engineered to perfection.