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[PH] ROB GARFALO: Hi. I'm Rob Garofalo. We're here in Austin, Texas at the Summer NAMM Show 2006, and we're showing the Hartke KM200. This is a 15" 200-watt keyboard monitor, and it features a Hartke original aluminum cone. Now, bass players found out about the aluminum cone of their own with the Hartke Kickback. Now, Hartke makes an aluminum cone monitor just for keyboard players.

Basically, the aluminum cone gives a punch, a clarity, and a brightness to the keyboard that you cannot find in any traditional cone driver, and that's why we use aluminum in all our keyboard monitors. This amplifier is 200 watts. It has four channels. We have a seven-band graphic EQ on the main section as well as two-band EQ on the master channel. The amplifier also kicks back for easy monitoring. You can see on the top panel we have XLR balanced out as well as stereo unbalanced out ports for any live sound application.

The amplifier sells for $549. It's 200 watts and plays through a 15" aluminum cone driver. Let's listen to how it sounds.

[HARTKE REPRESENTATIVE PLAYING KEYBOARD THROUGH A HARTKE KM200]

This is the flagship in a line of keyboard monitors from Hartke, which also include the 100-watt 12" aluminum cone driver model and the KM60 which is 60-watt, 10" aluminum cone model.