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Sound on Sound ON TEST Eve Audio SC204 & TS107 Active Monitors & Subwoofer Eve Audio SC204 The 2.1 monitor approach may have its pitfalls, & TS107 but there are also some very real benefits to be PROS • Eve family sound. had, especially in small studios. • Sub integrates well with the mains and can be placed where the bass is most even. PAUL WHITE to go — and that isn’t always the best placement for the most even bass response. • Good range of user adjustments. • Detailed but non-fatiguing sound. ’m generally wary of using speaker Mid- and high-frequency problems are easy systems with subs in small rooms, as enough to sort out using absorbers, but bass CONS I their extended low-frequency response treatment in small rooms is often impractical, • You need to remove the tweeter grilles to can stir up some serious modal problems, or at least difficult to do effectively. By hear the SC204s at their best. resulting in noticeable peaks and dips in the choosing a 2.1 system, the main speakers SUMMARY bass response. Though I have to concede can go where you need them, while the sub Whether used on their own or with the that there can be practical benefits from can be placed in the position that produces TS107 sub, the SC204s retain the Eve using 2.1 systems in such rooms where the the least lumpy bass response. So although family sound, delivering a detailed sound sub doesn’t go down too low. One problem with a small sub you may not get more that doesn’t cause fatigue after prolonged with small rooms, other than their typically low end than from a couple of mid-sized use. However, after hearing them with the sub you’ll be reluctant to use them uneven modal responses, is that ergonomics monitors, you may well end up with a more without it. usually dictate where the speakers need accurate overall sound. 162 March 2014 / www.soundonsound.com The 2.1 system under review comprises As with Eve’s larger monitors, the control on the front panel, which also Eve’s active two-way SC204 main speakers crossover (in this case, 3kHz), safety limiting incorporates a push switch and ring of teamed with their TS107 sub (though and parameter adjustments are handled in amber indicator LEDs. Pressing the knob the SC204s can be used on their own or the digital domain, using DSP electronics causes one LED to come on alongside the with a different sub). The SC204s are the controlled via the front-panel rotary control. function to be adjusted, at which point smallest monitors in Eve’s studio monitor Conversion from the analogue domain is turning the knob allows a different function range, measuring just 145 x 230 x 195 mm via Burr-Brown converters, and as the PWM to be selected. Pushing the knob again and weighing 3.8kg each. To provide more amplifiers are directly connected to the DSP, allows the knob to adjust the selected mounting options, there are threaded no further conversion takes place. Input setting. After a few seconds the LED display screw inserts on the bottom and the back is analogue only and on balanced XLR or reverts to showing the volume. If only the for mounting on a mic stand or wall mount, unbalanced phono, but there’s no option for last LED in the ring is lit, the speaker is in though I’d always recommend a more a balanced jack input. Power is via the usual standby mode, and automatically enters rigid stand or speaker platform for the IEC socket, and mains cables are included. this mode if left unused for long periods. best results. As well as being used with a sub, the Note that the text surrounding the control This ported monitor features SC204s can also work on their own, at is extremely small, so keep your reading a long-throw Eve SilverCone woofer built levels of up to 96dB SPL. They use bass using a honeycomb diaphragm material, porting to extend the low end performance which is designed to be both light and rigid. down to 64Hz (-3dB), in this case via This is driven by a one-inch voice coil. As a wide rear slot-shaped port. User control with other Eve monitors, the highs, which comprises volume, high-shelf filter (-5dB reach 21kHz (-3dB) are looked after by an to +3dB at 3kHz), desk filter boost (0dB AMT (Air Motion Transformer) tweeter, to +3dB at 80Hz) and desk filter cut (-5dB power for which comes from a pair of 50W to 0dB at 200Hz). There’s also a 300Hz PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) amplifiers. low-shelving filter (-5dB to +3dB), with Here the tweeters are protected by means DIP switches for locking out the filter As well as the power and audio input sockets, of removable perforated steel grilles held in and level adjustments. the SC204’s rear panel features DIP siwtches for place by the tweeter magnets. Adjustments are made via the rotary locking various front-panel settings. www.soundonsound.com / March 2014 163 ON TEST EVE AUDIO SC204 & TS107 glasses handy, but in most cases you should stand-alone in a small or difficult room. So only need to adjust the settings once. far then, I wasn’t disappointed. Switching in the sub took some of the What Lies Beneath low-end load off the SC204s, and at the Apparently the ‘TS’ in TS107 stands for same time added a low octave that could ThunderStorm, which is the name for this be felt as well as heard. I have to say it range of subwoofers. The TS107 is an active integrated beautifully, and with the SC204s subwoofer with switchable satellite filters switched off I was surprised at how little for full-range or 80Hz crossover, a polarity sound the sub actually needed to produce invert switch and variable subwoofer filter to turn the SC204s into an effective 2.1 frequencies from 60 to 140 Hz. It has stereo system capable of plenty of clean level. balanced XLR inputs as well as balanced Indeed, the low end of the system had stereo outs to feed the main speakers. It more depth than from the SC207s alone, also has connections for LFE in and LFE/sub The TS107 has a comprehensive set of full-range and with (subjectively, at any rate) less bass and filtered I/O. out). In the 2.1 setup reviewed here, the ‘overhang’. The result was a tighter and stereo signal feeds the sub’s inputs, and the tweak the sub’s upper range filter settings. deeper bass end that combined clarity with stereo outs feed the SC204s. Two rotary encoders on the sub’s front punch. It was also easy to find a sub position Once again, the power comes from panel adjust volume and access/adjust the where the bass level stayed sensibly even in a PWM amplifier, in this case 100W, where other parameters as an alternative to using my own studio. The polarity invert setting the forward-facing woofer is 6.5 inches in the remote, and DIP switches on the rear gave the smoothest and tightest bass sound diameter and produces an overall frequency panel again allow individual parameters to in my room, but your mileage may differ. response of 33 to 300 Hz (-3dB) with be locked. It is also pertinent to mention Other than that, the default settings on the a maximum SPL of 102dB at one metre. that both the mains and sub include the sub worked perfectly well. Rather than using a conventional ported compulsory standby/low-power features box, this sub stands on chunky feet and specified by the EU, and when the system Verdict employs a downward-facing passive radiator was first powered up, it was necessary to Judged on their own merits, the SC204s — a device very like a loudspeaker but with press the volume encoder switches briefly to are strong performers and an ideal choice no voice coil or magnet. Passive radiators bring the system to life. for small studios that misbehave when fed work in a similar way to a port, except Before going on to test these speakers a lot of low end. They have the detailed but that the air loading on the driver doesn’t I would also like to point out that all DSP non-fatiguing Eve family sound and even disappear once you get below the port’s speaker systems introduce a slight delay though you can’t feel the bass, there’s still tuned frequency, as it does with an open within the convertors and DSP processing a decent impression of depth. Having heard port. There’s also no port noise due to air sections. This is very small, typically around the difference those grilles made though, I’d turbulence, as a passive radiator forms what a couple of milliseconds, but it does mean advocate removing them! is in effect a sprung seal across what would that if you’re putting together a surround Bring in the sub and these toddlers normally be the port aperture. Eve tell us system you should use the same type morph into adults, delivering effortless that using a passive radiator allowed them of speakers, and not mix analogue and full-range sound with deep, well-controlled to achieve a suitably low cabinet tuning digital models. bass. Indeed, the lows are so extended that while keeping the cabinet compact, at just smaller rooms might again start to exhibit 230 x 355 x 300 mm (and weighing 8.2kg).
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