In designing the Monitor MR series, Monitor Audio has not so much raised the bar as propelled it to a new dimension. We’ve taken the hugely successful, award-winning Bronze Reference Series back to the blue print and re-tuned, optimising every detail to re-define our meaning of entry-level. Equipped to compete with many more expensive offerings from rival brands and capable of jaw-dropping audio resolution in two-channel and multi-channel systems. Aesthetically it’s a class a part as well. Utilising a stunning pearlescent vinyl finish and vastly improved terminal panels, the six slender Monitor Reference models are gorgeous to look at and effortlessly easy to live with. Setting our new benchmark for style, performance and value, the Monitor MR series elevates in every way the reference standard for entry-level loudspeaker design. A potent new listening experience is released.
The diminutive MR1 allows you to enjoy high quality sound in the smallest spaces. You’ll fall in love with its agile, rhythmic performance and its liberating versatility. While retaining the compact dimensions of its BR1 predecessor, this reference compact monitor delivers superior bandwidth and better linearity, so you hear more music with greater definition than ever before. The two-way MR1 utilises a single 5.5” MMP® II bass driver and 1” C-CAM® tweeter within a system optimised for genuine fidelity wherever you place it in the home.
New C-CAM® tweeter: Advanced software simulation has allowed us to optimise the tweeter design bringing higher sensitivity and wider bandwidth to reveal the finest high frequency detail all the way up to 30kHz. We’ve developed a sophisticated new tweeter chamber with graduated damping which controls undesirable resonances for a smoother more accurate response.
New MMP® mid-range drivers: The MR mid-range driver incorporates the pointed metal phase dome utilised by our award-winning RS series speakers. Lending greater concentric rigidity to the voice-coil, this innovation greatly improves on and off-axis response in the critical mid-range region for life-like timbre and voices. Shorter voice coils and more agile motor assemblies give the drivers an improved transient response and higher overall efficiency.
New MMP® bass drivers: Using a combination of detailed FEA analysis and improved material specification we’ve developed a new, stronger driver chassis together with a more precise motor system for greater accuracy and deeper, faster bass and far greater excursion without distortion.
New crossovers: Crossover design has been refined for each system using high quality components, skilfully arranged to reduce distortion for clean signal transfer. The new PCB layouts incorporating new laminated steel core inductors and audiophile-grade polypropylene capacitors keep signal paths as short as possible while isolating the components themselves from cross interaction and mutual coupling.
