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Monitor Audio announces new flagship speaker range
Acclaimed loudspeaker company Monitor Audio has taken the wraps off a new flagship speaker series. Called Platinum, Monitor claims the new speaker range 'is the result of 'blue-sky' thinking in driver and cabinet construction, involving radical new materials, processes and designs.'
As you might expect after such a claim, the Platinums are quite innovatively designed, using braced cabinets available in exotic Santos Redwood and Ebony natural wood veneers which are hand-selected, matched and coated with 11 layers of clear gloss piano lacquer. The front baffles are hand-upholstered in Strathspey leather and loaded with new custom-developed drive units including a ceramic coated aluminium/magnesium ribbon high frequency transducer.
The initial three model Platinum line-up comprises a compact two-way speaker, the PL100, featuring one 6.5? Rigid Diaphragm Technology (RDT?) bass-mid driver and C-CAM high frequency ribbon transducer; a three-way floor-standing loudspeaker, the PL300, comprising two 8? RDT bass drivers, one 4? RDT mid-range driver and a
C-CAM ribbon transducer; and the PL350C, a large three-way, four driver centre channel speaker utilizing the same driver complement as the PL300. Custom-designed floor stands are available for the PL100 and PL350C.
Approximate prices (inc. VAT) for the speakers when they launch in June will be: PL100, ?2300pr; PL300, ?5000pr; PL350C, ?2300ea; Floor stands: PL100
stands, ?350pr; PL350C stand, ?250ea.
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