Monitor Audio Bronze 200 Floorstanding Speakers Review
These use dual 5 ½” mid-bass drivers compared to the single 8” in the Bronze 100 and are a very skinny tower speaker. They actually take up much less of a footprint in your room than a pair of Bronze 100’s on a stand and they blended into our room.
We tried the same toe in positions with these as the Bronze 100 and came to the same conclusion, toe them in just a little, but do not aim them right at you. These sounded better a bit closer to the back wall at about 12”, which is a bonus for fitting them in a room.
The caveats we had about the Bronze 100 were obliterated with the Bronze 200. The bass on these reaches a little deeper but is much more tuneful with improved definition. They are also slightly more sensitive which gave us better dynamics as well.
The imaging is equally as good if maybe not even better due to the smaller cabinet face. But the real change to our ears was how these get the midrange right. These had the presentation we have known to love from most British speakers. We have seen many other speakers that use smaller dual drivers have these same characteristics where the midrange is fantastic and the bass is fast and well defined.
Another area we noticed improvements in was the sense of timing. Some listeners ignore this and pay more attention to individual instruments and the soundstage presentation. But there is an argument that a great speaker should also make you want to get up and move when you play a fun, rhythmic track. The Bronze 200 had better timing to our ears than the Bronze 100.
While these are double the price of the Bronze 100, like all of the Bronze speakers, they are still a great value and were our favorite of the ones we tested. They had that open, airy top end we loved on the Bronze 100, but add more refinement to the bottom end with the other improvements we mentioned.
For someone just getting into a decent pair of speakers, the Bronze 100 will be a lot of fun to listen to and give you punchy bass and an extended open top end like you may have never experienced before. The Bronze 200 is more for the listener who wants even better sound, plus the look of this small tower is fantastic.