PMC RESULT.6 Nearfield Monitors

It’s not often a set of PMC monitors make their way onto my monitor bridge. I believe the last PMC monitors I auditioned were Digidesign RM-1s — a collaborative effort between the two companies from way back when. Regardless, each time I do sit in front of a pair of PMCs, I need to re-calibrate my perception of lower frequency reproduction. Why is that? Well PMC does things a little differently to your usual monitor manufacturer.

All PMC’s designs utilise what’s known as a transmission line as part of the monitor cabinet design. The upshot of incorporating a transmission line within the cabinet is the taming of reverberation caused by the low-end driver interacting with the rear of the cabinet — as you’d find with typical bass reflex designs, ported or otherwise. Consequently, the monitor projects bottom end in a truer fashion. With a non-ported cabinet the transmission line will dampen and absorb unwanted lower frequency anomalies, and with a ported transmission line those lower frequencies can be altered to leave the open port in phase with frequencies