Speaker specialist Monitor Audio has released a new, ‘midrange’ addition to its celebrated Platinum range.
The PL200 is a stripped-down version of the established PL300, and the company hopes this smaller and cheaper model will appeal to a broader range of hi-fi enthusiasts, Holding roughly a third less volume than the PL300, Monitor Audio claims the PL200 has lost nothing in terms of sound or build quality – it’s just considerably smaller.
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So no new parts have been sourced for the PL200, but simply reduced versions of the originals, with a rescaled 6.5in version of the original 8in driver and a reconfigured example of the Tapered Line Enclosure (TLE) to align coaxially with the HiVe II bass reflex port.
The 4in RDT midrange driver and Monitor Audio’s unique C-CAM ribbon tweeter remain the same.
Standing just under a metre tall (the PL300 is 1.2m), Monitor Audio says the performance specifications of both models are almost identical, with the PL200 only slightly behind its cousin in terms of bass extension (35Hz rather than 28Hz), sound pressure level (117dB instead of 118dB) and power handling (250W to 300W). It’s also 10 kilos lighter at 33Kg.