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Born in Brooklyn. Built on physics.

Hear everything. Miss nothing.

Precision. Not Prestige.

The sound you hear is the sound your audience hears. Exactly as you made it. Everywhere they listen.

Signal active
Product Line

Tools that answer to one standard. Yours.

Scoring a film. Mixing an album. Tracking a vocal at 2am. Uncompromising accuracy, every time.

“What you hear is what your audience hears. When your monitoring is accurate, your work translates everywhere — headphones, cars, club systems, streaming. That’s not a spec. That’s the reason Ex Machina exists.”
Truth over hype
Every claim is backed by measurements you can verify yourself. We publish everything — frequency response, phase, impulse, THD. If we can’t prove it, we don’t say it.
Science without compromise
If a design shortcut undermines accuracy it doesn’t ship. Our products meet our measurement standards, not a marketing calendar. That’s why every unit is measured and calibrated before it leaves Brooklyn.
Professional tools. Without the professional tax.
Professional tools shouldn’t require a professional budget. We built the monitors we wanted because no one else had.
The Science

Most brands fix frequency response. We fix time.

Sound arrives. Your brain assembles the image. If the timing is off by fractions of a millisecond, the image collapses. You stop trusting what you hear. You start second-guessing every decision.

We solve the time-domain first, then frequency response. Every unit is measured and calibrated before it leaves Brooklyn. Terra goes further — living calibration means individual driver corrections improve as our measurement capabilities advance. Your monitors get better as our research advances.

When you can finally trust what you hear, every decision lands with conviction. When the monitoring disappears, your instincts take over. That’s when the best work happens.

Read the full methodology →
Other brands sell you the image of being a professional. We build the tools that make you one.
The measurements aren’t marketing. They’re the proof.
Terra, measured performance
Terra RMS
Terra RMS
Terra Impulse
Terra Impulse
Terra THD
Terra THD
±1.5dB
Magnitude
What you put in is what comes out. Exactly. Every component of every frequency, exactly as recorded.
±15°
Phase Linearity
Every instrument sits exactly where you placed it. On any system, in any room, every time.
90°x90
Coverage Angle
Move around the room. Step to the side. The picture holds. Every position tells the same story.
Users

Made on Ex Machina.

Real engineers. Real studios. Real work. When your tools tell the truth, you never lose sight of what matters most — the music.

Mike Tierney
New York, NY
Mike Tierney
Recording & Mixing Engineer
Independent
Grammy Winner 2025  ·  Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales  ·  Steve Reich: The String Quartets (Mivos Quartet)
“The first time I heard the Ex Machina Quasars, I knew my search for monitors was over. I don’t need to think about my monitoring. It’s just the music coming through.”
Justin Colletti mastering
Derry, NH
Justin Colletti
Mastering Engineer & Audio Journalist
Joe Lambert Mastering / Sonic Scoop
Goosebumps The Musical (OBC)  ·  The Bygones  ·  Joshua Lee Turner
“The Ex Machina speakers strike the perfect balance by delivering true precision while still being an absolute pleasure to listen to. These are some of the most trustworthy speakers I’ve ever used.”
Ryan Fluff Bruce studio
University Place, WA
Ryan “Fluff” Bruce
Producer & Mixing Engineer
Independent
Resider  ·  The Undertaking  ·  Wake Me  ·  Gigi Gold
“I once had a studio engineer tell me ‘If you are thinking about your monitors while mixing, you have the wrong monitors.’ It took me until getting my Ex-Machinas to understand what he meant.”
Andrew Shaw studio
Boston, MA
Andrew Shaw
Producer & Mixing Engineer
EZSt Productions
Kill Box  ·  Exit Hell  ·  No More YT Beats  ·  City So Small
“I can trust the translation on my Pulsar speakers like never before. My Pulsars bring a new level of quality to my sound.”
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I once had a studio engineer tell me ‘If you are thinking about your monitors while mixing, you have the wrong monitors.’ It took me until getting my Ex-Machinas to understand what he meant.
Ryan “Fluff” Bruce , Producer & Mixing Engineer, University Place WA
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Signal Flow is our ongoing series on studio monitoring, acoustics, and the science behind accurate playback.