Platinum

The Range

Platinum is Monitor Audio's flagship range, a culmination of many years of research and development by Technical Director Dean Hartley and his team. It's the result of 'blue-sky' thinking in driver and cabinet construction involving radical new materials, processes and designs. For Platinum, the challenge was to introduce genuinely esoteric yet affordable performance and quality to the loudspeaker market; and to achieve the most natural sound possible by focusing on each and every design detail. Supremely esoteric in nature, the range sets new standards of aesthetic quality and performance in its class.

Platinum's innovatively shaped and braced cabinets are finished in a choice of lustrous black lacquer, exotic Santos Rosewood and Ebony natural wood veneers. These are hand-selected, matched and coated with eleven layers of clear gloss piano lacquer. The front baffles are upholstered in Strathspey leather and loaded with custom-developed drive units including a Ceramic Coated Aluminium/Magnesium (C-CAM®) ribbon high frequency transducer. With a mass of just 18mg, the ribbon diaphragm has a very fast transient response and exhibits extremely low distortion. These characteristics coupled with a useable frequency range to 100 kHz allow it to capture the leading edges and natural decay of the most complex musical sounds and their harmonics. The Platinum C-CAM bass/mid-range drivers employ Rigid Diaphragm Technology (RDT) in which a core of honeycomb Nomex material is sandwiched by ultra-thin skins of C-CAM, creating a structure which is extremely light but more rigid than a steel plate. Key design elements such as the baffles, plinths, and the mid-range housings are cast from Anti-Resonance Composite (ARC®) material: a thermo-set polymer loaded with minerals to provide very inert, optimally damped components.

Our ambition for Platinum demanded an utterly purist mentality, the development of new materials and proprietary structures, exhaustive anechoic testing and plenty of good old-fashioned listening. Every component part for each of the seven Platinum models is produced to exacting standards and carefully assembled by a small team of technicians. The Platinum series represents the epitome of British craftsmanship and quality, and demonstrates Monitor Audio's devotion to music and film sound reproduction.

Features

• Ceramic-Coated Aluminum/Magnesium (C-CAM®) drivers
• Platinum C-CAM high frequency ribbon transducer.
• Rigid Diaphragm Technology (RDT®) mid-range and bass drivers
• Anti-Resonance Composite (ARC) baffles, plinths and mid-range driver housings
• HiVe® II High Velocity reflex port
• Cabinets are constructed from multiple layers of bonded MDF, forming an extremely rigid multi curved shell, hand finished in a choice of lustrous exotic wood veneer or piano gloss.
• 'Bullet' spike feet of high-tensile steel, chrome-plated to a mirror finish.