Fluid Audio Image 2 Studio Monitors With Integrated SoundID Reference Now Available

Sonarworks announced the global availability of the Fluid Image 2 studio monitors. In November 2022, Fluid Audio announced a partnership with Sonarworks which delivers a complete pro studio monitoring solution, built around its Image 2 studio monitors and SoundID Reference. The room calibration software is integrated directly into Image 2 studio monitors, giving users the ability to load SoundID Reference export files into each monitor’s native DSP right after calibration.

Fluid Audio is the latest studio monitor company to announce a partnership with Sonarworks to deliver a complete pro studio monitoring solution, built around its brand new Image 2 studio monitors and SoundID Reference calibration software. As with previous hardware integrations, the Sonarworks software allows users the ability to create their own calibration profile for the Image 2 studio monitors, removing unwanted colorations, and offering a more accurate reference in any studio or home environment.

Always attempting new approaches in active studio monitor designs, Fluid Audio, the company founded by Kevin Zuccaro (JBL, M-Audio, Avid) just introduced an interesting product. After 3 years of research, Fluid Audio introduced the Image 2, a 3-way reference studio monitor design, dedicated to nearfield and midfield use. Using the latest in DSP development and Class-D amplification the Image 2 is probably one of the more ambitious projects from the brand.

Californian studio monitor company Fluid Audio has ventured into headphones for recording and mixing and announced the release of its new Fluid Audio Focus headphone playback and mixing system. Following the recent market trend of combining headphones with correction and processing software, Fluid joined forces with Russian software house dSONIQ, and bundled its new Focus headphones with Realphones headphone correction and binaural room simulation solution.

Building upon their range of studio monitors, Fluid Audio now announced the SRI-2 USB Recording Interface, a sturdy aluminum design with two class A microphone preamps and best-in-class digital converters, featuring a large volume knob to provide accurate control of the output level, and direct monitoring with zero-latency tracking. Given the studio monitor heritage of the San Diego-based company, the SRI-2 also doubles as a monitor switching box for two pairs of monitors, allowing to A-B compare the mix on two sets of speakers.

Fluid Audio’s much anticipated FPX7 coaxial ribbon monitors are now shipping. Building on the brand’s popular Fader Series monitors, Kevin Zuccaro has upped the ante by creating an affordable coaxial ribbon tweeter monitor, which, as he says, “is poised to blow the socks off other monitors in its class in sound reproduction, imaging, and affordability.”