'A Focus On Overall Musicality And Cohesion'

FOR Clear presentation; bold and punchy sound

AGAINST Nothing of note

If we review any more products in Monitor Audio’s sixth-generation Silver range, we’ll probably need to get ourselves a new thesaurus. Having previously reviewed the Silver 200 and its surround sound package, we were already close to running out of suitable superlatives.

These Silver 100s are effectively the fifth member of the group to pass through our testing rooms, and, with the company highlighting the shared family characteristics, it’s possible we could be struggling for new ways to describe them. As it happens, we’re just as loathe to box them back up as we were their siblings.

Modern living

The larger of two pairs of standmounters in the series, the Silver 100s are chunkier than the Silver 200 floorstanders that won an Award last year, largely thanks to their bigger mid/bass driver. Whereas the latter comprised a pair of 13cm C-CAM (ceramic coated aluminium/magnesium) drivers each, these have just one, measuring 20cm.

It doesn’t add a whole lot of heft to the overall design, which still sits very much within Monitor Audio’s ‘modern living’ intentions, but feels as though it offers more for the money. It’s the same basic design as the Silver 200s, despite the different sizing, aided by a DCF coupling mechanism taken from the company’s flagship Platinum II Series, to help lower distortion for cleaner-sounding highs.