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KV2 Audio is a young passionate company combining the disciplines of acoustic design, electronic design and audio engineering to bring you the ultimate solutions in active loudspeaker systems for live sound applications.
KV2 Audio Systems offer you a blank canvas where every nuance of your mix, choice of microphone, instrument, position, even the download speed of your music become ingredients in your recipe of audio reproduction. Our systems challenge you, they lay the facts out bare in front of you, providing the ultimate tool for an engineer who is ready and willing to rise to that challenge, striving for audio and musical perfection.
Defining Performance - advanced high-definition, active loudspeakers
Unlike most other speaker manufacturers, KV2 Audio is equally expert in both acoustic and electronic design—in fact, we’re thirty-year veterans at building rugged, high-performance, high-current power amps. Our experience in acoustic design, transducer design, active electronic design and durable electronic and wood box manufacturing leads us to produce dramatically smarter products. We get the most out of technology because we understand it thoroughly. We can squeeze more performance pound for pound and dollar for dollar out of our components than our competitors can. That’s why our speakers are smaller, sound better and often cost less.
You know you’re doing something right when you get the jaws of veteran sound company owners to drop. That’s what’s been happening when we demo our ES and EX Series products. Actually, first we get snickers. The skeptical staff watches us wheel in our small boxes. Then we fire it up and the snickers turn to wonder. How can that much performance be delivered by such a compact system? Especially one priced significantly less than some companies charge for passive speakers?
When you’re able to perfectly match an amplifier with a transducer, you start to unlock incredible performance that is impossible to achieve with passive systems. The amplifier can be perfectly optimized to extract the highest level of performance from the transducer. It can deliver exactly the right amount—and type—of power. Control electronics constantly monitor and preserve the relationship between each amplifier and component. Total system reliability increases dramatically—as does sound quality. That ability only comes with years of experience.
The KV2 crew has considerable experience making high quality, active loudspeaker systems for other companies.
George Krampera and Marcelo Vercelli practically invented the small-venue active loudspeaker system. We’ve also had years of doing sound at countless gigs in the US and Europe. So, we know the abuse a speaker cabinet takes. When you hear our speakers, you’ll appreciate the engineering skill and craftsmanship that went into them. You’ll also understand why we say KV2 speakers are the next generation of Active speaker technology.
How KV2 Audio has become a pioneer
Since our modest beginnings KV2 Audio has become recognised as one of the industry leaders and pioneers in the art of providing uncompromised high quality sound solutions for the 21st century.
The modern age of MP3’s, poor quality digital equipment and a general acceptance of a declining audio experience only goes to challenge us, inspire our thinking, and create solutions that at every price point and every market sector consistently raise the bar. With a lifelong love of audio comes experience. Among our ranks, the K in KV2, George Krampera, has been responsible for many of the high end transducers used in today’s leading loudspeakers, as well as his own finished products which have now sold over 2 million units worldwide.
The Kv2 Audio Product Range
 KV2 Audio Systems are installed in famous stadiums, churches, nightclubs, bars and theatres all over the world. They play for hundred’s of thousands of people every year at large festivals and are the first choice of discerning Audio Visual providers and Performing Artists.
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KV2 Audio are at the forefront of technology
Looking for Depth?
Increasing the ‘dynamic range’ of a loudspeaker system is the fundamental basis for increasing the sonic clarity, depth and resolution. George Krampera defined ‘True Dynamic Range’ (TDR) as the ratio between the maximum output of the speaker vs. the noise floor. Critical to his noise definition was that this includes both harmonic distortion and intermodulation distortion. The reason is simple. As the audio signal becomes more complex, harmonic distortion and intermodulation distortion are summed together and also become more complex. The noise floor now assumes the behaviour of random noise.
We began to investigate the dynamic ranges of other products and found that typically a claimed dynamic range of 40dB would collapse to around 26 - 30dB under normal live sound operation and even less when the amplifier enters clipping. This brought the question “Is that noise floor audible?” The answer is a simple yes. If you are playing music at 120dB and the noise floor is at 80dB, it is audible. Push the system to 130dB, see the noise floor rise to 100 - 110dB and it is really audible.
Having understood the problem our goal was to develop systems that exhibited up to 20dB more dynamic range than existing products on the market. But how do you begin designing products with increased TDR? The answer was simple, you focus on everything; transducer design, acoustic design, horns, amplifiers, control electronics and integration schemes.
Transducer Design
Every loudspeaker used in a KV2 Audio system is specifically developed. This leads to the development of components that become the ultimate solution for their given application, not just an off the shelf driver made to function adequately well as is so often seen in many of today’s designs.
Acoustic design and horns
KV2 Audio designs wide dispersion speaker systems because we strongly believe that most applications (from 100,000 people) can be covered with fewer cabinets that provide wide bandwidth and very high output.
Amplification
KV2 Audio design amplifiers from the ground up for specific applications. This approach allows us to employ and refine the perfect types of power required for accurately reproducing highs, mids and bass frequencies. Low frequency devices have a unique set of requirements. Woofers are large, heavy and difficult to keep under control. On one hand you need lots of power but besides cone size and weight the single most important trait is the woofer’s phase shift characteristics.
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