<h2>Kii THREE Pro DSP Studio Monitor - (Pair)</h2>
<i>Kii breaks the sonic mold for compact studio monitors by combining drive units on the front, rear, and sides with a 4 way DSP crossover and filter.</i><br /><br />The Kii THREE contains six 
channels of DSP, D/A conversion and power amplification. Few companies 
could pull off such a densely packed design with truly world class 
performance electronics. But then again, few active speakers are 
designed by people who have previously turned high end power 
amplification and digital conversion around.
<br /><br />Each side panel of 
the THREE holds a 3x250W power amplifier board, designed by Bruno 
Putzeys using the latest iteration of the Ncore class D technology which
 he invented for Hypex. Unique to the implementation used in the Kii 
THREE is a combined voltage/current control loop that goes beyond merely
 a better amp – it actively improves the distortion performance of the 
drive units which contributes significantly to the extreme resolution of
 the speaker.
<br /><br />Naturally, this means that the performance of the 
AD/DA conversion has to match that of the amps. This task fell to Bart 
van der Laan who has a long track record designing DSP and converter 
boards for high-end professional audio equipment. Kii Audio’s 
implementation is a runaway success: a complete pass through the AD/DA 
circuitry of the THREE’s signal processing board is entirely inaudible, a
 feat not duplicated by the most expensive audiophile standalone units.
<br /><br />Alongside
 the Active Wave Focusing filters the DSP is responsible for keeping the
 drive units within their safe operating range by gently adapting the 
filters instead of brutally limiting the signal, allowing the THREE to 
play significantly louder and cleaner than much bigger traditional 
designs.
<br /><br />On the input side there is a choice of analogue, digital
 inputs. All digital inputs are up-sampled and reclocked using Kii’s own
 jitter rejection algorithm that guarantees actual “bits is bits” audio 
performance for any digital source.
<br /><br />The electronics package alone
 sets a milestone. What it does in concert with the unique acoustic 
design defies imagination. You have to hear it to realize the magnitude 
of the revolution the Kii THREE represents.
<br /><br />Kii’s mission for the THREE was to break the sonic mould of compact 
speakers. Powerful small speakers with deep bass have been around for a 
while now but none so far sounded like a big speaker. The THREE is built
 to fix that.<br />
<p>
	Basic acoustics tells us that a classic box speaker only directs 
sound towards the listeners from the midrange up while bass frequencies 
are radiated all around. The frequency where this change happens depends
 on the size of the box front (the “baffle”). The smaller the baffle, 
the higher the frequency at which bass is still radiated all around 
instead of directed towards the listener.
</p>
<p>
	That in short is why big speakers have so far delivered much more 
precise timing and detail in the bass and low mids than small speakers: 
the room gets less chance to interfere. And that is what Kii has now 
managed to make a compact speaker do.
</p>
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<h3>Kii THREE unique features:</h3>
<ul>
	<li><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">XLR Input</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"> - this can provide either analog or digital Input depending how the select switch is set</span></span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><inline style="font-size: 16px;">Select switch</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"> (3 positions) - chooses between AES left channel / Analog / AES right channel Input</span></span></inline></li>
	<li><b>KiiLink Digital Thru on CAT5</b> - used to connect the two speakers when using a single AES Input<br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><inline style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><inline style="font-size: 16px;"></span></strong></inline></inline></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><inline style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><inline style="font-size: 16px;">KiiLink Digital Input on CAT5</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"> - used to connect the two speakers & future Kii products</span></span></inline></inline></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><inline style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><inline style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Boundary switch</strong> - can be set to 16 positions between free / wall / corner to optimize setup</span></span></inline></inline></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><inline style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Contour switch</strong> - provides flat setting + 14 different preset EQ curves to match the listeners taste</span></span></inline></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Mains Power Connector</strong> - plug in your power cable and go, the Kii Three has no power switch</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<h3>The Active Wave Focusing Solution</h3>
<p>
	A loop hole in acoustics says that small directive speakers are 
possible - if you have enough drivers and you feed them the exact right 
signal. The THREE has a total of 6 (six) ways, front, side and rear, 
working together to throw the sound in one direction only without 
relying on a baffle. The THREE’s ability to direct bass is comparable 
to, but much better controlled than that of a traditional speaker 
several meters wide.
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
</p>
<h3>What do Active Wave Focusing filters do?</h3>
<p>
	Active Wave Focusing filters mark a complete departure from the 
classical crossover filter. Instead of just splitting the spectrum into 
bands, it forces the specially positioned drive units to create a 
completely coherent wave front that is only emitted forward and behaves 
as though all of it came from the midrange driver.
</p>
<p>
	With classical crossover filters, loudspeakers can only have a time 
aligned impulse response on the main axis. The animations on the right 
show the wave front as it’s built up by a typical modern three-way 
speaker with side-firing woofers. This example is crossed over at 250Hz,
 time aligned and phase equalized. Indeed the wave traveling towards 
the listener is coherent. Towards the sides and the rear the picture 
breaks down and the impulse is completely smeared. Also, low frequencies
 get emitted in all directions. In a real room (bottom animation) the 
sound that escapes toward the back will strike the wall behind the 
speaker and reflect towards the listener, who actually hears the speaker
 twice: once from the front and a bit later from the rear. Moving the 
speaker out into the room doesn't help. The overall bass balance looks 
better but the impulse response gets worse as the reflection now comes 
even later.
</p>
<p>
	The animations on the right show how the Active Wave Focusing method 
retains full time alignment all around the speaker and how the presence 
of the rear wall has no impact. Sonically, the effect is a very even, 
unusually detailed bass. Even in problematic rooms, a drum kick has that
 visceral thud that previously only very big or in-wall speakers could 
achieve.
</p>
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<h3>The Kii THREE was designed with the acoustical challenges of todays
 studio setups in mind. For more information, call or chat with an RSPE 
representative today. 
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