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Our speakers have been making noise not only in studios, but around the music gear community as well. Check out what some of the most respected names in the business are saying about our coaxial studio monitors.

Equator D5 Reviews

D5 Review | Mix Magazine

“It's a no-brainer. Buy these speakers. You will not be disappointed. If you don't like them, send them back."

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D5 Review | Electronic Musician

“These speakers settle in nicely; their distinguishing characteristics include accuracy that doesn’t grate, and the ability to make mixing a satisfying, not just clinical, experience."

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D5 Review | Tape Op

“The D5 studio monitor is high in quality, low in cost, sounds fantastic, offers amazing detail and imaging, and is backed by a 60 day money-back guarantee."

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D5 Review | Sound on Sound Magazine

“In the D5, Equator have employed the same innovative technology they use in their premium models — but at a remarkably low price."

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D5 Review | Recording Magazine

“D5 is niether brash nor mellow, it just sounds - for want of a dictionary's worth of other words - good . Accurate, detailed, balanced."

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D5 Review | The Pro Audio Web Blog

“The clarity is excellent where critical listening is required. In fact it becomes such a simple pleasure that you will often find yourself wanting to use the D5’s right around the clock."

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D8 Review | Soundstage

“Equator Audio makes professional monitors that use DSP technology in two helpful ways."

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D5 Review | CNET

“The D5 is, by far, the least expensive desktop speaker I've tested with a coaxial driver."

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D5 Review | Music Radar

“Compact enough not to dominate your studio space, at first glance the D5s have the look of a two-way monitor until you realise that you're actually getting a tuned front port for bass that sits under the main driver assembly."

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Equator Q8 Reviews

Q8 Review | Sound on Sound Magazine

“The stereo imaging is very sharp and stable, with rock-solid phantom images and an impressively broad sweet zone, which is thanks, in large part, to the coaxial nature of the drivers.”

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Q8 Review | Electronic Musician

"Had it been my song to mix, the Q8s would have helped me hear and fix that before it went out."

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