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:
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?
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.
Hello thanks for answering so if it is 1.5db less than the manufacturer would it be 86.5db at 1w / 1m?
thanks
I wonder if the Gold 200 5G (which I have and is the equivalent of this new model) measures in a similar way. I wouldn’t be surprised considering how it sounds in my room. It’s quite different from the Gold 300 5G, which was also measured by Stereophile and I think has a more pleasant and forgiving frequency response.
Reading this old post does not make me very excited. I’ve auditioned the MA Silver 100 7g next to the 606s3 in my place:https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/i...dio-gold-100-loudspeakers&catid=77&Itemid=153
M.A.’s speaker measurements are all over the board, some are good and some are not, I don’t even know how they vary so much unless there are different designers.
For the far off-axis (45-75°), you can easily see the issue with crossing a 6.5” at 2.5kHz:
You also see that their AMT has pretty narrow dispersion.
At first I thought they maybe crossed that high due to distortion of the AMT (the RAAL ribbons don’t due too well at 2kHz for instance), but nope:
Besides the tiny blip at ~3400Hz the tweeter’s distortion doesn’t even show up in the 50dB window.
You can also see some weird happenings (related to the port?) at 500Hz, and looking at the response we do see that from the high frequencies going down, the SPL lowers at 500Hz and then gradually rises till 100Hz (the NRC chamber is only valid to around here).
<84dB sensitivity and 4ohm nominal also isn’t great.
This thing is $2300/pair by the way, at least it looks nice:
Here is the 2014-2018 version:
These measurements are from last year, but I just found them, as another user asked me if I ever contacted Monitor Audio for comments on how they rate sensitivity (you can click my signature and go Manufacturer Comments in the Speaker Sensitivity tab for comments from other companies), but like B&W, you literally cannot contact the company, they simply refer you to your local dealers; so I went looking at measurements from other sites just to see, and the NRC got 83.32dB 300-3000Hz on the listening window, and this speaker is rated at 86dB @ 1W (I think they meant 2.83V, as this is for 4ohm, so 1W would be -3dB; so they are claiming 89dB @ 2.83V, which is +6dB from what the NRC got, but granted they use the listening window so it’s a bit lower than on-axis).
I personally prefer Silver over Gold series with most last gens, especially the Silver 7G VS Gold 5G.
I was already afraid for this.. stupid of me to assume the Golds would at least be as good without auditioning them.
Other people may like something, but doesn't always mean you'll like the same.
You’re absolutely right, and the gold sounds good . The only issue is I can’t compare it to anything else right now. And I still need to tweak the room correction a bit more. Throughout my audio upgrade process, I’ve tested several amps and changed many variables while listening to different speakers. So at this point, it’s hard to know what’s really going on.
Have you ever reviewed any gold speakers from the 4g series? Just bought a pair off of Facebook market place, but seem to be able to find very little information, as MA just went through a mass exodus of removing the product pages for their legacy speakers. I can see the frequency response from Google that still shows up in the description. It does look like they're rated at 8 ohms, versus these being rated at 4 ohms and that makes me wonder if the 4g might have been the better pick between the two
