Monitor Audio Gold 100 (2019 revision) measurements by SoundStage/NRC

[thewas]

Or any Monitor Audio for what matters. For exemple, new Silver range looks very promising. Subjectively, I always liked their products and was a big fan of previous Silver and Gold series.

Fresh on-axis and decay measurement of the new Silver range top model, nicely flat and no pronounced resonances and with the small mid driver its horizontal directivity shouldn't be bad either:

Source: https://www.hifinews.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-500-7g-loudspeaker-lab-report

 

[thewas]

An interview about their development https://www.soundstageaccess.com/in...itor-audios-michael-hedges-and-charles-minett

 

[Anterantz]

Yeah, even the Bronze wasn’t as bad:
https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/i...dio-bronze-6-loudspeakers&catid=77&Itemid=153

And it has 87dB sensitivity.

The older (before 2014) GX100 was better:
https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/i...&catid=77:loudspeaker-measurements&Itemid=153
And ~87dB.

So the current model has worse FR/directivity (distortion is better) and more difficult to power. I wonder how the 2014 Gold 100 measured.

Hello, I'm sorry to be repetitive but I don't understand what sensitivity these boxes have ... in its manual it says 88db 1w / 1m but they were measured at 86.5db at 2.83v / 1m does it mean that the manual measurement is correct or is it 3db less sensitive?

Is that I am
shuffling if it is worth putting external stage since I use quite a lot of spl and I was shuffling or stage or changing boxes.

But I love how these speakers sound, but I am calculating the power I need to get
100db.

Someone clarify for me?

 

[MZKM]

Hello, I'm sorry to be repetitive but I don't understand what sensitivity these boxes have ... in its manual it says 88db 1w / 1m but they were measured at 86.5db at 2.83v / 1m does it mean that the manual measurement is correct or is it 3db less sensitive?

Is that I am
shuffling if it is worth putting external stage since I use quite a lot of spl and I was shuffling or stage or changing boxes.

But I love how these speakers sound, but I am calculating the power I need to get
100db.

Someone clarify for me?

I haven’t updated the calculations in a while, but last time I did, going my the IEC sensitivity spec that I go by (300Hz-3kHz) your average speaker is 1.5dB less sensitive than what is claimed in the manufacturer specifications.

Now, SoundStage/NRC calculates the sensitivity on the listening window and not the on-axis, but they should be similar.

 

[Anterantz]

I haven’t updated the calculations in a while, but last time I did, going my the IEC sensitivity spec that I go by (300Hz-3kHz) your average speaker is 1.5dB less sensitive than what is claimed in the manufacturer specifications.

Now, SoundStage/NRC calculates the sensitivity on the listening window and not the on-axis, but they should be similar.

Hello thanks for answering so if it is 1.5db less than the manufacturer would it be 86.5db at 1w / 1m?

 

[MZKM]

Hello thanks for answering so if it is 1.5db less than the manufacturer would it be 86.5db at 1w / 1m?

That would be the average difference for any speaker, you can see the Monitor Audio models that I linked were 87.3dB & 86.7dB, so compare that to whatever their specs were.

 

[Anterantz]

Esa sería la diferencia promedio para cualquier altavoz, puede ver que los modelos de Monitor Audio que vinculé eran 87.3dB y 86.7dB, así que compárelo con sus especificaciones.

thanks