An essential part of the recording, mixing, and mastering process is something that both listeners of serious music, musicians, and audio engineers share: critical listening. Critical listening involves listening to the music and its nitty-gritty components, untainted by post-distribution and consumer audio processing. For that, audio engineers and recording enthusiasts need something that will not color or taint the sound with unnecessary things. One such item would be the Blue Sky SAT 265.

The SAT 265 is a 300-Watt, two-way, tri-amplified, near-field, and high-output active studio monitor. That description is quite a mouthful I would say but more than that, it features a 6.5" high excursion hemispherical woofers and a 1" dual ring radiator tweeter with integral waveguide, providing off-axis response. These woofers are powered by a low-distortion 100-Watt amplifier that it does not share with the tweeters, which also have their own separate 100-Watt amplifier. This studio monitor has a frequency response of 80Hz to 30kHz 3.0dB (200Hz to 15kHz 1.5dB), making it fully compatible with Blue Sky subwoofers such as SUB 15 Universal, SUB 212, SUB 12 and BMC (Bass Management Controller). Controls for "full space" (room) and "half space" (baffle wall) installations are available in the rear panel along with HF level trims and gain setting controls.

The Blue Sky SAT 265 is priced at 1,500.00 USD (MSRP). The mouthful of features and specs described previously, while they could not be counted on as evidence of greatness, does spell out the potential of how transparent it could be to raise that level of objectivity in performing your mixing and mastering duties right after recording.