Monitor Audio Silver 500 7g

[kolestonin]

This quote is from Stereophile review:

''The nominal impedance is 8 ohms, with a dip at 150Hz to a minimum of 4.1 ohms. That should make the Silver 500 a fairly easy load for an amplifier, although Monitor Audio recommends an amplifier that outputs 80Wpc or more''

Can my arthur 3409/N2(nc252mp) be a limiting factor under any circumstances? Do they maybe 'deserve' something better? And what amplifier I could try, and return if not happy, so to see if they behave differently?

3 months after the initial purchase speakers are keep putting the same, if not a bigger, smile on my face. So I have no suspicion my amp is not up to the task.
I just would like to see if there is room to experiment, some more to discover, and why not unlock some more potential if possible.

I attach the specs of my power amp and my speakers.

 

[kolestonin]

I found the time to make some measurements of my Monitor Audio Silver 500 7g speakers using the moving microphone method as described in this thread by @RandomEar

I performed 4 bunches of three different measurements, measuring each time left and right speaker separately and speakers combined as well in below conditions:

Default(all 4 ports unblocked)
Up ports blocked(port bungs inserted on upper ports)
Down ports blocked(port bungs inserted on down ports)
All ports blocked(port bungs inserted all 4 ports)

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I would appreciate if you could have a look and help me make some conclusions. Any kind of advice would be of course welcome.

My chain is:
Topping E30 DAC//Topping Pre90 preamp//Boxem Arthur 3409/N2 (nc252mp-based power amp)

I also upload a photo of my space so you can have the full picture.

Thank you in advance for your feedback

 

[kolestonin]

I am used to see my subjective impressions posts being ignored.
But now I shared some real measurements!
Is this still ASR?
Then why you snob them folks?

Let me share some screenshots so to give you some motivation or just in case you don't want to bother downloading my .mdat files.

I share all the L+R combined measurements in attached screenshots.

What do you think?
How my speakers measure?
What are the issues I will need to take care of?

 

[Jim Creek]

Stereophile also recently measured it:

Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G loudspeaker Measurements

Sidebar 3: Measurements I measured the Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G's farfield behavior with DRA Labs' MLSSA system, an Earthworks microphone preamplifier, and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone. I used an Earthworks QTC-40 mike, with its small ¼"-diameter capsule, to measure the nearfield...

www.stereophile.com

Get to see the tweeter ringing (breaking up) like crazy around ~25kHz.

Fortunately only bats will be able to hear that break up.

 

[Penelinfi]

I found the time to make some measurements of my Monitor Audio Silver 500 7g speakers using the moving microphone method as described in this thread by @RandomEar

I performed 4 bunches of three different measurements, measuring each time left and right speaker separately and speakers combined as well in below conditions:

Default(all 4 ports unblocked)
Up ports blocked(port bungs inserted on upper ports)
Down ports blocked(port bungs inserted on down ports)
All ports blocked(port bungs inserted all 4 ports)

I uploaded the .mdat files here:

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I would appreciate if you could have a look and help me make some conclusions. Any kind of advice would be of course welcome.

My chain is:
Topping E30 DAC//Topping Pre90 preamp//Boxem Arthur 3409/N2 (nc252mp-based power amp)

I also upload a photo of my space so you can have the full picture.

Thank you in advance for your feedback

The +15dB at 50Hz I'd want to EQ down. I had a pair of bookshelf speakers with the same thing and it does give that "one note boom"