The latter are designed to sit atop the Bronze 200 and 50 and match those speakers in width and depth (the 50 is the smallest of the two Bronze stand-mounts and not tested here). The only grilles I left in place for listening were on the AMS Dolby Atmos models. The 200 and 150C come with magnetically attached grilles, while the FX, AMS, and W10 make do with pegs in slots. An auto-sensing switch allows the sub to wake up when it senses a bass input, and there's a polarity switch (0- and 180-degrees), a 24dB/octave low-pass filter selectable from 50-120Hz (there's no defeat position), and three selectable DSP modes: Music, Movie, and Impact. Fixed legs give the latter ample clearance from the floor. The compact Bronze W10 woofer utilizes a front-facing 10-inch long-throw C-CAM-cone driver, a 220W class-D amplifier, and a large, bottom-mounted passive radiator. SURROUND SOUND REFERENCE MONITOR SPEAKER SYSTEM INSTALLBoth the FX and AMS have slots on the back for wall-mounting, though I didn't install them that way. The wedge-shaped AMS Dolby Atmos speakers (also sealed) each use a 4-inch woofer-midrange and one tweeter. A front-panel switch allows for bi-pole or dipole operation (I used bi-pole mode, where the two tweeters are in-phase). The sealed-cabinet Bronze FX surround employs a single 5.5-inch woofer-midrange and a pair of tweeters mounted at an angle on either side of the woofer. Similar to the 200s, it offers dual binding posts for bi-amping or bi-wiring. The Bronze C150 center is a sealed, 2-way, horizontally configured design. Both woofers operate in the bass region, but the bottom woofer is low-pass-filtered above 700Hz while the top one extends through the midrange until it's crossed over to the tweeter at 2.4kHz. The 200 tower features dual rear ports (foam "bungs" are provided to block the ports if desired, though I didn't use them) and employs two 5.5-inch woofer-midranges in a 2.5-way design. All tweeters (apart from those in the company's AMS Dolby Atmos speakers) employ waveguides covered with an acoustically transparent, hexagonal dispersion pattern grille, and the woofers in the 200 Tower and C150 center speaker are secured via threaded rods that extend through the back of the cabinet. SURROUND SOUND REFERENCE MONITOR SPEAKER SYSTEM DRIVERSThe cones of the bass-midrange drivers are also dished with no dust caps, further reducing possible colorations. SURROUND SOUND REFERENCE MONITOR SPEAKER SYSTEM SERIESBut while that budget-priced series represents the entry point to the Monitor Audio's offerings, our saga here covers the next step up: Bronze 6G, the sixth generation of the Bronze line.Īll drivers in the Bronze series use the company's C-CAM cone and dome material (ceramic coated aluminum magnesium), said to minimize resonances. The company must have run out of suitable metallic names when its Monitor series was introduced a few years ago- Steel or Aluminum (or Aluminium!) clearly wouldn't do. Britain-based Monitor Audio offers a wide range of loudspeakers at prices spanning from the bargain basement up to the penthouse that are cleverly named for a variety of metals: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze.
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