Bookshelf monitors are a crowded category within the landscape of music products, but an incredibly inmportant one. There is no way Behringer was going to stay on the sidelines of this category, so they did a bit of corporate rading and wooed one KRK's chief speaker designers away and set him to the task of creating Behringer's new line of studio monitors. The Behringer K5 is the largest of the designs in the K Series monitors, and is a great choice for anyone whose studio can accommodate an 5' bookshelf monitor and that needs to have a good, clear, detailed image of bass performance in program material.Why Studio Monitors are so ImportantThe goal of a great studio monitor is to present an accurate representation of your mix, so you can tell how well it will translate to the diverse listening environments and systems of today, such as car stereos, club sound systems, radio, portable digital music players and others. The remarkably flat response of the NEKKST K5 allows you to work with the complete confidence that your mixes will oeplay accurately on these systems and to your audience at large.Keith R. Klawitter - the Man Who Invented Studio MonitorsThe ultra-linear, 100-Watt reference-class NEKKST K5 was designed by renowned acoustic icon and founder of KRK, Keith R. Klawitter “ a man who has devoted much of his life to the quest for the 'perfect' loudspeaker. The K5 features Keith's advanced Waveguide technology for the ultimate in acoustic dispersion, which generates an extremely large oesweet zone for easy and optimal monitoring. A true bi-amped system, an ingenious crossover design and separate amplifiers are utilized for high and low-frequency signals, providing superb sound reproduction from the long-throw,