Monitor Audio GS60, GS20, GS10 User Manual

Owners Manual

GS10, GS20 & GS60

Contents

Page

Introduction 1

Safety Instructions 2

Gold GS10 3

Gold GS20 4

Gold GS60 5

Plinth Fixing (GS20, GS60 only) 6

Spike Foot Fixing 7

Levelling Your loudspeakers 8

Connecting Your Loudspeakers 9/10

Guarantee and Service 11

Data Protection 12

Owner Information 13

Warranty Card – Fold out section in back cover

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing Monitor Audio Gold Signature loudspeakers.

The new Gold Signature series has been designed with improvements in every area, building on the strength and ethos of the original award winning Gold Reference. Although there are some visual similarities, major improvements have been made in the construction and quality of materials used with a ‘no expense spared’ approach. All metal parts are made from die-cast alloys and in the case of the driver chassis and chassis clamp system, a combination of cast aluminium and Zinc are used alternately to provide a structure that has different resonance properties, thus providing a high degree of resonance cancellation and damping. The cabinet is more rigid with traditional tongue and groove construction and better internal bracing. New die-cast alloy terminal panels are now located low down on the GS20 and GS60 to provide neat access and avoid unsightly trailing cables. The plinth is also now made from a rigid cast alloy with a discreet aerofoil proﬁle. New alloy composite feet and spikes round off this highly accomplished package.

The new RST®2 cone proﬁle has been reﬁned to provide better control of break up. A new C-CAM® gold dome tweeter has been developed to propel high frequency performance to beyond 40KHz. Extensive development has also resulted in another unique feature; the HiVe2 port design. This new port technology uses a straight riﬂed construction to aid air ﬂow and reduce turbulence.

Your Gold GS loudspeakers come complete with grilles, port bungs (all products), plinths, spikes, and tool box (GS20 and GS60 only). The tool box contains; hex keys for adjusting the spikes and attaching the plinth, a cleaning cloth, and the spikes for the spike assembly.

The GS10 is a rear ported cabinet design. Because of this design, we recommend that when ﬁxing the loudspeakers to a wall the port bungs are used. This may also apply when any of the ported loudspeakers are positioned very close to a rear/side wall.

The GS20 and GS60 are both designed with two port tubes (per loudspeaker). One is on the front of the cabinet; the other is on the rear. These ports should not need to be blocked if you are using your loudspeaker in a room greater than about 9m2. However, if you cannot implement the ‘ideal’ speaker positioning, then experiment using the port bungs. First start by ﬁtting them in the rear port, then the front, and then both to see which conﬁguration is best suited to your personal tastes and room constraints. The port bungs are another way of ﬁne-tuning the loudspeaker to ﬁt in sonically with your home environment.

WARNING: Care must be taken not to insert the port bungs too far into the port as this may result in the foam bung being lost inside the cabinet.

Please retain this manual for future reference. Safety Instructions

1. Read Instructions

Please read and follow all of the instructions in this manual before enjoying your loudspeakers. Any instructions preceded by this warning triangle MUST be followed. Failure to do so may cause personal injury or damage to the speakers

2. Water & Moisture

The loudspeakers should not be used near water - for example, bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sink, washing machine, in a wet basement or near a swimming pool. Under no circumstance should plants or ﬁsh bowls be placed on the products.

3. Heat

The speaker/s should not be placed near any heat source such as radiators, open ﬁres, stoves, direct sunlight and any other appliance that produces heat.

These speakers are designed for use within the home environment. Exposure to extreme temperatures & humidity when placed on patios or open conditions could adversely affect the wooden cabinet.

4. Cleaning

Great care and attention has gone into the materials chosen to produce the Gold GS loudspeakers. It is our intention that they should provide a lifetime of musical pleasure. A gentle wipe with a dry, clean cloth is all that is required to remove any dust. On high lacquer ﬁnishes please ensure the duster is free of any foreign objects to avoid scratching the surface. Treat them as you would a ﬁne piece of furniture because that is how they have been designed. Avoid touching the loudspeaker’s drive units whilst cleaning, as any damage will impair their performance.

5. Re-cycling

When it is time to replace this product please help us protect the environment by disposing of it in an appropriate and responsible manner. Further details are available from www.monitoraudio.co.uk

6. Natural wood veneers

Monitor Audio takes great pride in providing a high quality product. We use only hand selected natural wood veneers, which are carefully matched and hand ﬁnished to the highest standard possible. The unique nature of each veneer may result in natural colour variation and grain from samples you may have seen in photos or at the dealer’s show room. This is what makes the product a special piece of furniture. If your speaker is ﬁnished in a Cherry veneer please be aware that it will naturally darken with age, more so than other types of wood veneer.

Your Gold GS10

With its advanced, low-resonance drivers, rigid build and contoured cabinet edges, GS10 redeﬁnes accurate, low-colouration sound in a compact, stylish stand-mount speaker. Using the new, low distortion 6-inch RST®2 bass-mid driver and gold C-CAM® tweeter developed specially for the GS series, the GS10 is capable of true 3-D imaging and tonal accuracy to rival the best reference studio monitors.

To remove the grilles, carefully prize it away from the cabinet using your ﬁngers. The grille locates in the elongated holes around the outside of the driver chassis clamp plate. To replace it, line the peg ﬁxings (in the grille) up with the elongated holes and gently press into place.

Frequency

Response

40Hz –

43kHz

Tweeter crossover frequency

KHz

Sensitivity

(1W@1m)

88dB 100 40 – 100

Crossover Frequency

2.7

Nominal

Impedance

(ohms)

Bass

N/A

Maximum

SPL (Per pair in

room). dBA

108

Drive Unit

Complement

1 x 6” RST®2

Bass/

mid-range.

1 x 25mm Gold

Dome

C-CAM

tweeter.

Power

Handling

(W) RMS

External

Dimensions -

Excluding plinth

H x W x D

mm (inch)

360 x 206

x 270

(14 3/16 x

8 1/8 x 11)

Recommended

Ampliﬁer

power output.

(W) RMS

External

Dimensions -

Including plinth

mm (inch)

N/A

Bass

Alignment

Rear ported,

bass reﬂex

Weight Kg (lb)

8.5 / (18.7)

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