KRIX MX-5
Krix is well-known to Australian music lovers for the many fine loudspeakers for the home it has produced over its 45 years. And many would know that only a few years after opening, Krix started making loudspeakers for cinemas. It still does both. Clearly the Krix MX-5 modular speaker system is aimed at the home — ‘For small to mid-size rooms’ says Krix — but in many ways it is a merging of those two lines of speakers into something quite special.
EQUIPMENT
How to approach this unusual system? First, let’s take a bird’s eye view.
The MX-5 isn’t a full surround system. It’s the front half. It consists of a left front speaker, a centre front speaker, a right front speaker and two subwoofers. Krix, of course, has many other excellent speakers to install in your ceiling and mount behind you and to the sides for surround sound. But the aim of the MX-5 is to handle the front of the room for a home theatre installation with a
