Like Part Of The Family

FOR Expressive and fun; flexible with positioning

AGAINST Nothing of note at this price

If you’ve already cast an eye over our review of the Monitor Audio Silver 200s, our assessment of the Silver 200 AV12s probably won’t come as a surprise. Effectively, it’s pretty much the same storyline with a few extra characters.

The Silver 200s, the smallest of three pairs of floor standing speakers in this sixth generation of Monitor Audio’s long-running Silver series, are again the headline act in this surround package.

We recently cooed over their speed, expression and sense of fun as a stereo pair, and their designers’ efforts to have matched that character in the rest of the range immediately whets our appetite to hear them performing as a part of a family.

But despite the 200 appearing in the title of this package, the floorstanders’ stage is shared with three equally talented protagonists – the Silver C150 centre speaker, Silver FX surround speakers and Silver W-12 subwoofer.

Modern living

The whole range has been designed for what Monitor Audio describes as ‘modern living’. This means not only more diminutive chassis, but also that the company’s engineers have worked to tune the speakers to ensure minimal variance in performance, regardless of positioning.

During our testing period with the Silver 200s, we find that rings impressively true. They thrive most when placed around 50cm from our back wall, but with only marginal discrepancies when almost flush to it, or out in the room. These differences perhaps become a matter of personal taste when it comes to extra bass weight or a faster, more sharply timed delivery.