Tannoy Reveal 8D Active Studio Monitor (Single)

Tannoy Reveal 8D Active Studio Monitor (Single)

The Tannoy Reveal D range of active near field monitoring speakers builds upon the success and recording industry reputation of the famous original Tannoy Reveal Active. When launched in the mid nineties, the Reveal Active was widely recognized as the product that defined the category and has been the active monitor of choice for thousands of amateur and professional recording, creative composition and postproduction facilities worldwide.

The original Reveal Active model was well renowned for its rigid cabinet and substantial baffle. With the Reveal D models, the cabinets have been further braced and refined to provide the most rigid platform possible for the new driver designs. Securely attached to the solid baffle, with no less than 10 hex socket countersunk-head screws, an all-new bass driver performs with significantly reduced distortion. Magnetic circuit flux control rings and extensive Klippell™ based symmetry analysis made this performance improvement possible, with the new drivers providing tight, punchy and controlled bass response with a clean and open mid range for superb vocal intelligibility. The open and detailed reproduction of mid-high frequencies is further enhanced with the inclusion of the Tannoy WideBand™ high frequency unit to improve and extend the high frequency phase response. This ensures increased tonal accuracy of individual instruments in the reproduction process – a mix critical factor allowing the best EQ and placement decisions to be made.

A set of DIP switches on the rear control panel of the Reveal D Active monitors allow the selection of an optimum speaker response for real life and often difficult monitoring situations so that the frequency response at the listener's ears is always as linear and flat as possible. Optimization can be preset for far field (>2m), mid field (1~2m), near field (~1m) and close field (<0.5m) situations in combination with free space (4pi), half space (2pi), quarter space (pi) and extreme eighth space (pi/2) corner situations. Reveal monitors can therefore be optimized for varying listening distances in difficult acoustic spaces; varying meter bridge positions, against and adjacent to walls or reflecting surfaces, in corners, in corners on shelves or brackets, table top / space restricted PC/Mac based sound editing environments and stand mounted or soffit mounted configurations.

Tannoy Reveal D active monitors will accept a standard SPDIF digital input, retaining the signal in the digital domain. In digital mode the SPDIF interface has both receive and transmit-onwards connections to enable loop through to the second speaker to preserve the SPDIF 75 ohm termination impedance. A three-position switch on each monitor speaker selects whether the speaker decodes the left or right channel of the digital stream. A true mono position is provided for monitoring the mono combination of the stereo signals, for example when monitoring program material for off air mono broadcast and limited bandwidth radio transmission intelligibility. Balanced analog inputs are also provided allowing either XLR or 1/4” 3 way jack plugs. 0dBv corresponds to full output and a trim control operates +6dB to -12dB re 0dBv on both analog and digital inputs (post DA converters).

Features:

• 40mm thick contoured baffle
• Driver lossy-coupled to cabinet
• 10 screw driver chassis fixing
• Flux control rings on LF drivers
• Extended HF phase response
• SPDIF 96KHz input with slave output to second speaker
• Left/Right/Mono select on SPDIF
• Balanced XLR/Jack Combi input connector
• +6/-12dB trim control on SPDIF and analogue line input.
• 80Hz hi-pass switch (for AV use)
• Front mounted On/Mute/Energy saver switch
• Front mounted LED status indicator
• Rear mounted mains isolation switch
• Far/Mid/Near field select
• Full//Half/Quarter/Eighth space select
• Bass alignment select
• Mid band trim select