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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SILVER 2
The Silver 2 features a powerful 8” C-CAM RST bass/mid
driver in a compact two-way stand mount design. Higher
overall eciency and driver size deliver excellent dynamic
headroom with the extended bass normally associated with
oor-standing models. Combining audiophile standards of
resolution and dynamics, the Silver 2 will ll medium to large
rooms with glorious audio in two-channel stereo or multi-
channel cinema applications.
We’ve optimised and tuned the diminutive Bronze One to be the
most accurate of any Bronze generation mini, imbuing the design
with true ‘monitor’ status. The 5½” C-CAM bass driver has been
created to out-perform a larger conventional driver and results
in a cleaner, more dynamic delivery, even at high power levels.
The Bronze Ones are able to play much louder and deeper than
their compact size would suggest from close-to-wall positions
in smaller room environments. Perfect for stand or shelf, or
wall-mounted using our Monitor Audio Speaker Mount (MASM),
the Bronze Ones will deliver great sound where space is at
a premium.
The Bronze Two builds on the strength of its predecessor’s
audiophile credibility with a neutral tonal balance
and high detail resolution combined with high overall
eciency and power handling. These are the perfect
ingredients for compelling listening. Armed with a larger
6.5” C-CAM bass driver and front-ring HiVe II port,
the turbo-charged Bronze Two is capable of eortless
dynamic scale and presence, revealing all the dramatic
contrast in music and cinema sound. For a speaker of its
size, the Bronze Two will deliver breath-taking results.
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The slender Bronze Five delivers powerful, responsive
bass lines that belie its stealthy appearance and surpass
those of many much larger towers. Its 5½” C-CAM bass
driver and 5½” C-CAM bass/mid driver are arranged
in a two and half way system conguration, operating
in separate acoustic chambers with front and rear ring
HiVe II ports to provide dierential tuning for higher
eciency and greater low frequency extension. The Five’s
low-distortion architecture expertly combines clean,
expressive mid and high frequencies with punchy room-
lling bass lines. The Bronze Five provides a naturally
rhythmic and addictive blend of large-scale dynamics and
detail from a surprisingly unobtrusive tower.
From the towering Bronze Six, the most complete New Bronze
speaker, music and home theatre lovers can appreciate the full-
range avour of our forty year design heritage. Its deceptively
compact cabinet supports two 6½” C-CAM bass drivers
operating in tandem with a further 6½” C-CAM mid-range
unit housed in a dedicated chamber. In this way matching
drivers tuned for dierent roles are able to develop a
wonderfully uniform, tonally consistent sound-eld. Their
seismic low bass and richly coherent mid-range detail
rises in frequency to meet the illuminating resolution of our
fabulous Bronze C-CAM tweeter. Here is New Bronze in tooth
and claw, alive to its ambitious audiophile design precedents
and equipped with a compelling mix of accuracy, scale and
dynamics for the highest value music and home theatre audio.
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By sharing the New Bronze acoustic and aesthetic design ethos,
the compact Bronze Centre is the natural partner for Bronze
left/right speakers in a home theatre LCR array. It features twin
5½” C-CAM bass/mid-range drivers straddling a Bronze C-CAM
tweeter for pin-point synergy with its satellite partners producing
seamless front soundstage action and articulate dialogue.
Developing the perfect mix of reverberant or direct surround
sound in a Bronze home cinema system, the wall-hugging New
Bronze FX surround speaker will combine seamlessly with
front channels to establish the immersive audio experience
essential to successful home theatre design. Matched
acoustically and aesthetically with its LCR counterparts, its
angled-bae cabinet can be ush-mounted on side or rear
walls, and its dispersion characteristics changed at the ick
of a switch to accommodate the precise requirements for
di-pole (diuse) or bi-pole (direct) operation. Flanking a single
5½” C-CAM bass/mid driver, dual C-CAM gold dome tweeters
are mounted on angled side-panels, helping to create a
wider, more enveloping and convincing surround sound-eld.
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All the audiophile-like transparency of New Bronze’s lowdistortion design regimen concentrated in the bass domain.
This is New Bronze bass, deeply provisioned, authentically
proportioned and dynamically eet of foot, re-tooled from
the ground up to punctuate the sound of every New Bronze
system with stunningly natural bass transients, timed to
perfection. The sophisticated W10 subwoofer is a New Bronze
original, featuring an exclusive trinity of uprated amplier
topology, powerful DSP processing and new long-throw
driver design.
Advanced switch-mode power conversion techniques,
custom DSP tuning and a massive power reservoir combine
to generate enormous dynamic headroom from the
Class D power-pack, allowing the driver to drop low and
punch hard without distortion for a truly sensational deep
bass experience. A down-ring 10” ABR (Auxiliary Bass
Radiator) ensures that with the same compact footprint as
its predecessor, the W10 delivers an incredible 6dB greater
SPL at 40Hz. Choose how you enjoy the W10’s prodigious bass
energy with pre-set EQ settings for music, movie or impact.
WALNUT
WHITE ASH
BLACK OAK
ROSEMAH
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BRONZE 1 BRONZE 2 BRONZE 5 BRONZE 6 BRONZE CENTRE BRONZE FX
System Format 2 Way 2 Way 2
Frequency Response
55Hz – 30kHz 42Hz – 30kHz 37Hz – 30kHz 34Hz – 30kHz 60Hz – 30kHz 65Hz – 30kHz
1/2
Way 2
1/2
Way 2 Way 2 Way
(-6dB - IEC 268-13)
Sensitivity 1W@1m 88dB 90dB 90dB 90dB 90dB 88dB
Maximum S.P.L.
109dBA (pair) 113dBA (pair) 113.8dBA (pair) 114.8dBA (pair) 113dBA 110dBA (pair)
(1dBA @ 1m - each)
Nominal Impedance 8Ω 8Ω 8Ω 8Ω 8Ω 8Ω
Power Handling - R.M.S. 70W 100W 120W 150W 120W 80W
Recommended Amp
15 - 70W 30 - 100W 30 - 120W 40 - 150W 20 - 120W 20 - 80W
Requirements
Cabinet Design Rear ported bass reex.
®
HiVe
II Port technology
Front ported bass reex.
HiVe II Port technology
Dual chamber bass reex Ported front and rear.
HiVe
II Port technology
Bass section - Front/rear
bass reex with HiVe
II
Port technology.
Sealed Cabinet Sealed Cabinet
Sealed mid-range enclosure.
Drive Unit Complement 1 x 5
1 x 25mm gold dome
C-CAM tweeter
1/2
” C-CAM® bass / mid driver,
1/2
1 x 6
” C-CAM bass / mid driver,
1 x 25mm gold dome
C-CAM tweeter
1/2
1 x 5
” C-CAM bass driver,
1/2
1 x 5
” C-CAM mid-range driver,
1 x 25mm gold dome
C-CAM tweeter
1/2
2 x 6
” C-CAM bass driver,
1/2
1 x 6
” C-CAM mid-range driver,
1 x 25mm gold dome
C-CAM tweeter
1/2
2 x 5
” C-CAM bass / mid driver,
1 x 25mm gold dome
C-CAM tweeter
1 x 5
2 x 25mm gold dome
C-CAM tweeter
1/2
” C-CAM bass / mid driver,
Crossover Frequency 2.7kHz 3.1kHz LF: -6dB @ 600Hz
MF/HF: 2.8kHz
Cabinet Dimensions
(H x W x D)
Complete Dimensions inc
grille, terminals, plinths
260 x 165 x 180mm
1/4
1/2
(10
260 x 165 x 205mm
(10
1/16
x 6
x 7
”)
1/4
1/2
1/16
x 6
x 8
”)
350 x 185 x 255mm
3/4
5/16
x 7
x 7
1/16
x 10
5/16
1/16
x 11
(13
350 x 185 x 281mm
3/4
(13
850 x 165 x 248mm
”)
”)
7/16
(33
898 x 215 x 282mm
3/8
(35
x 8
& spikes (H x W x D)
Weight (each) 3.5kg (7lb 12oz) 5.3kg (11lb 10oz) 11kg (24lb 6oz) 16.6kg (36lb 8oz) 5.6kg (12lb 6oz) 3.2kg (7lb)
LF: -6dB @ 150Hz
3.0kHz 2.8kHz
MF/HF: 2.5kHz
1/2
3/4
x 6
x 9
”)
7/16
1/8
x 11
”)
985 x 185 x 315mm
3/4
5/16
(38
1033 x 235 x 350mm
11/16
(40
3/8
x 7
x 12
1/4
3/4
x 9
x 13
”)
”)
165 x 460 x 165mm
1/2
1/8
x 18
x 18
1/2
x 6
”)
1/8
5/8
x 7
”)
(6
165 x 460 x 193mm
1/2
(6
274 x 276 x 104mm
13/16
13/16
x 10
x 11
7/8
x 4
1/6
x 4
(10
274 x 281 x 118mm
(10
1/8
”)
5/8
”)
BRONZE W10
System Format Active subwoofer system - Auxiliary (ABR) loading. 18mm MDF cabinet
Low Frequency Limit
30Hz
(-6dB - IEC 268-13)
Upper Frequency Limit 40 -120Hz (Variable Low Pass lter)
Low Pass Filter Alignment 12dB/ Octave Fixed @ 150Hz
Amplier Output - R.M.S. 220W
Amplier Classication Class D with Switch mode PSU
Bass EQ Modes Music / Movie / Impact
Phase Control 0-180 degrees
Auto Sensing >3.5mV
Input Impedance >20kΩ
Connections 2 x Stereo RCA, 1 x LFE RCA connection, 12V trigger (3.5mm mono mini-jack)
Drive Unit Complement 1 x 10” C-CAM long throw subwoofer driver + 1 x 10” at panel ABR
External Dimensions
(H x W x D)
320 x 320 x 330mm (12
364 x 320 x 364mm (14
Mains Input Voltage 110-120Vac - 50-60Hz
220-240Vac - 50-60Hz. Factory region pre-set
Standby Power Consumption <0.5W (ErP approved)
Max Power Consumption 200W
Weight (each) 12.9kg (28lb 6oz)
5/8
5/8
x 12
x 13”)
5/16
5/8
x 12
5/16
x 14
”) inc grille, amp & feet
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MONITOR AUDIO LTD
24 Brook Road, Rayleigh
Essex, SS6 7XJ
England
Tel: + 44 (0)1268 740580
Fax: + 44 (0)1268 740589
Email: info@monitoraudio.co.uk
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