![]() ![]() The company’s acoustic engineers claim it features the lowest distortion and most even frequency response they’ve delivered so far, thanks in part to a newly finessed waveguide that delivers highly controlled directivity, consistent in both the horizontal and vertical planes, and consequently more convincing soundstaging. The tweeter unit, meanwhile, is carried over almost entirely unchanged from the Concept 50/Hyphn design study - it’s the third generation of Monitor Audio’s ‘Micro Pleated Diaphragm’ high-frequency transducer (or, as it’s more commonly known, a ‘ribbon tweeter’). Big, powerful Neodymium magnets, a rearranged motor system and an underhung edge-wound voice-coil give great power-handling but better pistonic control at the same time - or, at least, that’s the theory. Three of the four drivers (the 102mm midrange and the pair of 203mm bass drivers) utilise the Rigid Diaphragm Technology that the company’s been refining for a while now - a Nomex honeycombed core sits between a very thin, very rigid ceramic-coated aluminium layer and a twin layer of carbon fibre that’s been layered and bonded at 90-degree angles for optimum strength. Some of Monitor Audio’s favourite technologies are deployed here. ![]() ![]() But they represent the state of the Monitor Audio art, both where acoustic engineering and furniture-making is concerned - and what a big, lavishly specified and extensively varnished state of the art it turns out to be. Of course, these are not the first big, pricey speakers ever launched by a storied British loudspeaker specialist. These Platinum 300 3G are the flagship model of that flagship range, and as befits their position in the pecking order they are a) imposing and b) expensive. To celebrate its 50th birthday, UK speaker stalwart, Monitor Audio first turned out a remarkable concept speaker (originally called - hey! - ‘Concept 50’ but latterly known as ‘Hyphn’) and then, by way of an encore, thoroughly overhauled its flagship Platinum range. ![]()
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