Monitor Audio BRONZE 1, BRONZE 2, BRONZE 5, BRONZE 6 User Manual
BRONZE SERIES
Monitor Audio’s story is intertwined with the evolution of our
world-famous speaker lines. Driven by top-down innovation
and ever more accurate acoustic analysis, each generation has
grown in capability, achieving award-winning levels of quality,
performance and value with every introduction. Our restless
desire for the most blissful combination of great sound and
design at all price points, demands that where possible we
share the technology across ranges so that driver designs and
analytic tools developed upstream serve to enhance ranges
further down. For example this approach allows the New Gold
series to benet from a version of Platinum’s extraordinary
C-CAM® ribbon tweeter; for Silver to inherit Gold’s
‘dished’ C-CAM driver designs, and similarly for New Bronze
to absorb the latest renements in tweeter and driver
engineering from the Silver project. In many ways New
Bronze has everything to gain from Monitor Audio’s dynamic
forty-year design heritage. Enriched as it is with elements of
Platinum, Gold and Silver, the brilliant New Bronze series will
transcend the expectations of its price class and eclipse even
its venerated multi-award winning predecessor Bronze BX.
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Our latest champion moves up a gear from BX and rival
budget speakers because New Bronze is simply in a class
of its own. The features speak for themselves. For the rst
time we’re using spectacular steel-grey C-CAM driver cones
for a seamless blend with nishes, available in a choice of
Black Oak, Walnut, Rosemah and a new White Ash. Invisible
driver xings and oating magnetic grilles add to the
impression of streamlined sophistication, lending New Bronze
the look and feel of a premium range.
It sounds like one as well. Drawing on our agship technologies
we’ve engineered the acoustic design to deliver lower distortion
and a wider response from seven beautifully matched,
deceptively slender models. Combined for natural full-range
music and home cinema sound, New Bronze will transform the
quality of your home entertainment at a price that won’t break
the bank.
All new C-CAM driver congurations give New Bronze the
tonal accuracy and consistency of a class leader. Harnessing
driver technology developed for our acclaimed mid-market
Silver models, New Bronze explodes the myth that high
power handling with low distortion belongs exclusively to the
expensive world of audiophile design.
The proprietary bass and mid drivers responsible for Bronze’s
open, expressive and naturally rhythmic quality utilise a new
type of ‘dished’ C-CAM cone, which employs the entire cone
surface to radiate sound. Unbroken by the centre pole-piece
aperture of conventional driver designs, the cone is inherently
more rigid and ecient while being less prone to break-up
under high drive conditions, resulting in exceptional detail
resolution and life-like tonality. Ingeniously, the driver’s voice
coil is thermally coupled to the back of the cone, which draws
heat away from the coil for better power handling and optimal
operation at all volume levels.
Above the drivers, a new 25mm C-CAM Gold Dome tweeter
extends each system’s frequency response to an ultra-sonic
30kHz, allowing the full reproduction of harmonic frequencies
vital to the accurate reproduction of, say, the decay of a piano
string or the crash of a hi-hat. Within the New Bronze tweeter,
an innovative venting system allows air to ow outside the
tweeter’s magnet assembly into a rear loading chamber,
preventing air from being compressed at the back of the
dome for lower distortion, reduced mechanical resonance, and
improved damping. Structural improvements in dome geometry
and drive mechanism have boosted accuracy and extension
at the top end of the tweeter’s range as well, generating the
extraordinary high frequency quality that helps to dene the
sound of New Bronze.
Enhancing system performance is our ‘bolt-through’ driver
mounting design, rst devised for our Radius series models
but now adopted by all our speaker ranges. The drivers are
individually mounted on a through-bolt which xes at the back
of the cabinet and tensions the driver at the front. Cleverly this
triple-action feature braces the cabinet structure for lower
box colouration while removing the need for conventional
front xings, reducing unwanted driver/cabinet resonance and
simultaneously boosting aesthetics.
The reex loading found on all New Bronze models (excluding
Centre, FX and W10) is of the HiVe®II variety, borrowed from the
Gold range, which uses ried port grooves to speed the air in
and out of the cabinet for cleaner, more powerful bass and a
superior transient response.
Best possible signal integrity through the crossover is supplied
by polypropylene lm capacitors, air core and laminated
steel core inductors. With slightly higher overall impedance
than their BX predecessors, the New Bronze line-up oers
superior system-building exibility with a wider choice of
partnering equipment.
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