Monitor Audio Silver 300 7G erhält den stereonet applause award

"...this new loudspeaker gives a surprisingly balanced and detailed sound considering its relatively modest price, along with impressive stereo imaging. With Solti's account of Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra recorded on the Decca label, for example, it was evident from the opening horn call that it is voiced to sound smooth, but with plenty of insight into the recording, all the same.

The Chord Dave and M-Scaler are one of the best combinations I know to extract every last ounce of spatial detail, and this big Monitor Audio didn't drop the ball. I heard plenty of slam in the climax of the first section, the Silver 300 keeping its composure even when the score became really demanding. Unfortunately, a touch of warmth is missing from the midrange, meaning that violins lose some body that I am used to hearing from my reference B&w 802 D3s, although the latter costs nearly twelve times the price, to be fair!

This speaker sounds best when it's really being extended. It's nice enough at low volumes, but it wakes up and parties when you pump power in. Things move from giving a subtle sense of being closed in, to sounding big, confident and assertive as the amplifier volume knob turns clockwise. It's a little more apparent than with some more sensitive speakers, but Monitor Audio clarifies that amps with real guts are needed.

The more you push the listening level up, the more this speaker magically reveals detail in recordings that you wouldn't expect at the price. This tallies with the Silver 300's general character - tight, taut, detailed, spry and dry. The Silver series has come a long way since its early models, which were more on the warm, woolly and opaque side. I guess five intermediate generations is a lot of time and voicing opportunities to get something right..."

(Hervorhebungen durch HIFI-REGLER)

I am not the most easy-going of listeners as far as loudspeakers are concerned. I have access to many superb high-end designs, know what I like, and am a bit fussy. Yet this new Monitor Audio impressed me; it's an extremely mature, well-thought-out and well-executed package. Tonally accurate, rhythmically engaging, dynamically powerful – providing you have the necessary amplifier firepower – and spatially true, the Silver 300 does an awful lot right at the money. Last and perhaps least, it looks great. Well worth an audition then, as it's highly recommended.