IK MULTIMEDIA iLoud MTM

Regular MusicTech readers might well have noticed a shift in our stance on small and cheap monitors over recent issues. We used to say that you needed to spend well into four figures for ‘proper’ studio monitors, but speaker transducer and circuit developments, tied with improved designs, have meant that you can now get decent, small and cheap monitors for around £500. Our advice therefore, has had to change with the times.

Our recent reviews of monitors from the likes of Adam Audio and JBL have shown just how good small and cheap speakers can be. But even before these releases, IK Multimedia had snuck in there with ridiculously small monitors and made a splash with them.

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The company’s iLoud Micro monitors were announced at NAMM 2017 as ‘the smallest studio monitors in the world’. I wanted to challenge that claim in my review, but was convinced by