M-Audio Launches New Speakers, Updates Session Range

M-Audio's new line of Studiophile multimedia speakers are magnetically shielded (to avoid interference with computer components, such as monitors) and will be available in three flavors.

The entry-level $99 AV20 set include a 2-inch sub woofer, 1-inch tweeter, 10-watts per channel internal amplification and left/right RCA inputs. The $129 AV30s (3-inch sub woofer) and $149 AV40s (four-inch sub woofer) provide fifteen or twenty watts per channel respectively, and both introduce 3/4-inch tweeters, bass boost control, a 1/8-inch mini jack input and a headphone output.

My colleague, Narasu Rebbapragada, discussed the Studiophile speakers with M-Audio in the latter half of a video shot earlier this week.

Meanwhile, M-Audio also announced its new $99 Session KeyStudio package: a 49 key, velocity sensitive USB keyboard controller (sans after touch or MIDI-out) that ships with Session, the company's own GarageBand-like music creation software. This new piano/keyboard package compliments the existing $99 Session/Fast Track USB interface bundle that's geared more towards guitarists and vocalists.

Session is also available for $50, bundled with an M-Audio Micro USB audio interface and as of this week, has been upgraded to version 1.5. The software update includes a new feature that makes it easy to share or sell your own tracks at independent music site Speakerheart.

Finally, M-Audio said it will sell a stand-alone version of its Torq DJ-ing software (adding support for songs bought on Apple's iTunes) by the end of February. The $49 Torq LE app will be a slimmed down version of the software bundled with M-Audio's existing $130 Torq MixLab and $300 Torq Connectiv hardware packages.

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