Presonus Eris monitors offer amazing quality speaker choices for your studio, at a great price. These Eris E4.5 speakers, as the name suggests, have 4.5 kevlar woofers, a 1 inch tweeter, and feature acoustic tuning controls to optimise your monitors for your mixing environment.
Don’t let their size and price fool you: Eris E4.5 powered speakers deliver amazing sound quality in a compact package. Perfect for home studios or as high-fidelity replacements for computer speakers, the diminutive Eris E4.5s are an outstanding value and pack a serious punch, thanks to 4.5-inch Kevlar™ low frequency transducers; 1-inch, low-mass, silk-dome tweeters; responsive 25W Class AB amplification per speaker; and professional acoustic-adjustment controls. Unlike comparably priced studio monitors, Eris E4.5 has controls for simulating different listening environments and flattening frequency response to enable more accurate mixing.
Altogether, this pair of studio monitor speakers comes at a great value price. The Eris 4.5 are a great first set of studio speakers, or work perfectly for a second reference pair in a larger studio.
Key Features
- 4.5-inc (E4.5) Kevlar low-frequency transducer
- 1-inch (25 mm), ultra-low-mass, silk-dome, high-frequency transducer
- 50 (E4.5) watt, Class AB biamplification
- Front-firing acoustic port for superior bass-frequency reproduction
- Midrange (+/-6 dB, continuously variable), HF (+/-6 dB, continuously variable), High-Pass (Off, 80 Hz, 100 Hz) and Acoustic Space settings (flat, -2, -4 dB) for accurate mixing contour
- RF interference, output current limiting, over-temperature, transient, and subsonic protection
- Optimized, resonance-suppressing internal bracing
- Balanced 1/4-inch TRS and unbalanced 1/8-inch TS, RCA inputs (E4.5)
- Balanced XLR/1/4-inch and unbalanced RCA inputs (E5 / E8)
- 1/8-inch stereo headphone output (E4.5)
- 100 dB (E4.5) maximum continuous SPL
Here's what Presonus say about the Eris Series Studio Monitors
When you're ready to get serious about recording, it's time to step up to PreSonus Eris-series studio monitors. Cheap computer speakers and home-stereo speakers won't reveal the truth about your mix. They aren't designed for that.
In contrast, Eris speakers are real studio monitors, delivering a very accurate response with a tight bass and very clear upper end. That's what you need in a home studio.
Notes Craig Anderton in his EM review of the E8 (March 2013), "The bass is tight and defined, with solid transient response, and the highs are accurate... Accuracy is paramount in the studio, because transportability is crucial-and the E8 scores high in that regard." Adds Strother Bullins (Pro Audio Review, September 2013), "Overall, the monitors are impressively frequency neutral with great imaging." Trevor Curwen (Future Music, July 2013) concurs: "Clarity is good and the overall balance of frequencies is one that you can work with, the top end coming through prominently and clearly revealing the detail, while the bottom end is tight and focussed and extends down far enough to allow you to make those important mix decisions."
The E5 delivers less bass than the E8 but according to Recording magazine's Mike Metlay (March 2013), "The rolloff in the bass was polite and smooth, and there was a lot of thump in kick drums and solid harmonic structure in bass guitars and low piano notes... Mids were forward and rockin', with vocals and guitars prominent and detailed; on acoustic tracks, details like finger squeaks on strings and breaths for phrasing were clear and evident... Highs were extended and smooth, without any edgy spikiness or resonances that leaped out; finger cymbals and hi-hats were clear and bright, and when an artist substituted a sample for the real thing, you could often tell."
Indeed, thanks to well-designed Kevlar low frequency transducers, low-mass silk-dome tweeters, responsive Class AB amplification, and professional acoustic-adjustment controls, all Eris models deliver the goods.
Yet Eris-series speakers are ultra-affordable, making them a terrific value. And with three models, you can easily find the Eris monitor that best suits your studio needs.
Specifications
Inputs
- 1 Stereo 1/8"
- 2 Balanced 1/4" TRS
- 2 Unbalanced RCA
Performance
- Frequency Response: 70 Hz - 20 kHz
- Crossover Frequency: 2.8 kHz
- LF Amplifier Power: 25W/speaker
- HF Amplifier Power: (not biamped)
- Peak SPL (@ 1 meter): 100 dB
- LF Driver: 4.5" Kevlar
- HF Driver: 1" silk dome
- Input Impedance: 10 k
User Controls
- Volume Range: A-type taper
- MF Control: Variable (-6 to +6 dB)
- HF Control: Variable (-6 to +6 dB)
- Low Cut: Flat, 80 Hz, 100 Hz
- Acoustic Space: Flat, -2 dB, -4 dB
Protection
- RF interference
- Output-current limiting
- Over-temperature
- Turn-on/off transient
- Subsonic filter
- External mains fuse
Power
Cabinet
- Vinyl-laminated, medium-density fiberboard
Physical
- Width: 6.42" (163 mm)
- Depth: 7.09" (180 mm)
- Height: 9.45" (241 mm)
- Weight: 13 lb. (5.9 kg)
