Monitor Audio Silver RS1 Bookshelf speakers

Monitor Audio Silver RS1 is made by two-way scheme with acoustic design of bass-reflex type. The port of bass reflex is placed on a back wall. Both drivers use C-CAM technology (the diffuser is made of aluminum and magnesium alloy and covered with a ceramic coating). A dome of an inch tweeter is covered with a compound, associated by color with gold. For reliability it is protected with a metallic grill. 150-mm MF/LF-driver looks very nice. Ceramic coating makes its surface a velvety-white and a shiny bullet is in the center. The use of metallic diffuser improves the accuracy of reaction and the ceramic layer additionally increases its rigidity. All this beauty is closed by a plain black protective mesh with strongly rounded corners. The mesh rests on four plastic dowel pins and seals against the body around the perimeter. Two pairs of convenient gilt terminals allow you to easily connect the speakers by bi-wiring and bi-amping. Four tiny soft plastic legs are glued in the bottom. Metallic Monitor Audio logo is embedded on a top cover.

Monitor Audio Silver RS1 showed an elegant sound style, characterized by a pleasant coolness and lightness of sound color. Loudspeakers as if illumine sound landscapes by soft light - very beautiful "backlight". An experienced listener will discern in the signature of RS1 the continuance of rich traditions of the English Hi-Fi. The softened lower and middle registers with sharp top against are especially pleasant for ear. However, only the listeners with big audio experience, gained while visiting concert halls, will make these small differences in the transfer of registers out. Overall impression from the sound of RS1 is very favorable. Often there was the feeling that the speaker systems do not reproduce recordings as much as transfer music.