M-Audio BX5 Carbon | 5" Single Speaker Studio Monitor

M-Audio's BX5 Carbon studio monitor helps you track, monitor, and mix with confidence by providing accurate sound and dynamic acoustic control.

Equipped with a 5” woven Kevlar low-frequency driver and 1” natural silk dome tweeter, the BX5 Carbon delivers a flat frequency response, enhanced stereo imaging, and increased clarity for authentic mixing in a space-saving design. The bi-amplified 70-watt class A/B amplification means high power with less noise and ensures that your monitoring setup can handle today's modern music with ease.

With the BX5 Carbon, your music is ready for any listening environment. Mixing doesn't occur in a vacuum. Your listening environment influences your mixing decisions and, ultimately, the sound of your music. The BX5 Carbon's Acoustic Space Control, a series of calibration switches, helps provide optimal acoustic conditions for tracking, mixing, and monitoring anywhere. Adapt the BX5 Carbon to any mixing environment-from bedrooms to basements to professional studios-without compromising frequency detail or stereo image. The result is a flexible monitoring setup for the most demanding mixing environments.

The tweeter's waveguide has been enhanced to provide an expansive sweet spot and superior stereo imaging. A wider mix position gives you professional monitoring for any caliber studio. Pinhole-mounted LED placement cues help locate and light up the sweet spot to ensure a speaker placement that reliably translates stereo information and frequencies. When the LEDs turn bright, you know you're dead center and ready to start mixing your sessions or laying down tracks.

Note: Sold individually.

Technical Specs

Type: 2-way near-field studio reference monitors

LF Driver: 5-inch Kevlar curved cone with high temperature voicecoil and damped rubber surround. Magnetically shielded

HF Driver: 1-inch magnetically shielded natural silk dome

Frequency Response: 56 Hz – 22,000 Hz

Crossover Frequency: 2,800 Hz

LF Amplifier Power: 40 W

HF Amplifier Power: 30 W

Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 100 dB typical A-weighted

Input Connectors:

(1) XLR balanced input connector

(1) TRS balanced/unbalanced input connector

Polarity: Positive signal at + input produce outward LF cone displacement

Input Impedance: 20 kΩ balanced, 10 kΩ unbalanced

input Sensitivity: 85 mV pink noise input produces 90 dBA output SPL at 1 meter with volume control at maximum

Protection: RF interference, output current limiting, over temperature, turnon/off transient, subsonic filter, external mains fuse.

Indicator: Power on/off indicator on rear panel

Power Requirements: Factory-programmed for 115 V ~50/60 Hz, 230 V ~50/60 Hz, or 100 V ~50/60 Hz

Cabinet: Vinyl-laminated high-acoustic-efficiency MDF

Dimension (height x width x depth): 9.8” x 6.9” x 7.9”

Weight: 11 lbs

Box Contents

BX5 Carbon (1)

Power Cable

User Guide

Safety & Warranty Manual

Features & details

Authentic, flat frequency response in a compact footprint

5" woven Kevlar low-frequency driver

New, bi-amplified 70 Watt (40+30) Class A/B amplification

Acoustic Space Control lets you calibrate the BX5 to your mixing environment

New waveguide with LED placement cues provide superior imaging