Monitor Audio Silver RX Centre Speaker – Rosenut

Here we have a centre channel loudspeaker from British specialists Monitor Audio. It is a Silver RX series model in the Rosenut finish and comes in good condition, noting a couple of minor blemishes. It will be supplied in original factory packaging along with grille and our standard three month warranty.
Monitor Audio Say….
This is Silver RX: Monitor Audio’s stunning new mid-market speaker range. Classically configured and crafted using our finest proven technologies, RX offers you a brilliantly creative union of chic contemporary design and utterly realistic audio that will satisfy and endure.
Resplendent in a choice of premium quality real wood veneers and high-gloss lacquer finishes, the ravishing new RX series relies on Monitor Audio’s most prestigious science for its class-leading sound quality. Techniques and materials refined for our flagship Platinum and Gold Signature series speakers are deployed comprehensively throughout each of the seven RX designs, which combine in matching stereo and multi-channel systems to provide a dynamic audio accuracy as jaw-dropping as any you’d enjoy at more elevated price levels.
Few speaker brands can match the impeccable standards of build quality that we apply to even our budget designs, and so the sumptuous engineering on offer from the Silver RX range is beyond equal in its price class. Each design’s optimally damped and rigid acoustic architecture is wrapped in a shimmering skin of lustrous real wood or mirror-like high gloss, so that systems of two, five, seven or more Silver RX speakers will blend or contrast beautifully with any interior according to taste. For music or home theatre applications, our Silver RX speakers have the perfect mix of virtues for 21st Century HD entertainment.
By refining our computer-aided Finite Element Analysis (FEA) we have developed new ways to shape our core driver material C-CAM® in the cause of even greater fidelity. C-CAM (Ceramic-Coated Aluminium/Magnesium) is very light and very strong and so is ideal for our driver cones, but as we’ve discovered, it can be made to perform ever more efficiently and effectively.
The new C-CAM® gold dome tweeter now extends high frequency performance to beyond 35 kHz, enabling the full potential of current and future wide-band HD audio and cinema formats to be realised. A newly damped rear chamber provides greater control for a smoother more accurate response.
Advanced FEA simulations have also helped the process of fine tuning the RST® (Rigid Surface Technology) C-CAM® mid-range/bass drivers, originally created for our celebrated Gold Reference speakers and now incorporated by the Silver RX range. Their super-stiff dimpled profiles are now more resistant to break-up under high drive conditions and so produce a wider range of purer frequencies. Each driver’s rigid, non-magnetic cast polymer chassis is vented to improve airflow cooling and to equalise pressure around the driver motor, resulting in the ability to play louder and cleaner.
Single bolt-through driver fixings have the dual effect of improving cabinet rigidity while further reducing vibration at the driver/cabinet interface. By this innovative method, drivers are mounted on a single tensioned through-bolt, which is secured to the back of the cabinet. The bolt not only acts as a rigid cabinet brace to reduce box colouration, it removes the need for conventional driver fixings as well, effectively decoupling the driver and baffle to eliminate another source of unwanted resonance. The result is a more fluid communication of mid-range frequencies, and with the absence of front driver fixings, a cleaner more refined overall appearance – especially in tandem with RX’s ‘invisible’ magnetic grille location.
Developed for the flagship Gold Signature range, the HiVe®II reflex port is shaped to have the same effect on airflow as a gun-barrel on a bullet. Rifled groves inside the port help to accelerate the flow and reduce turbulence, so that air moves in and out of the port more efficiently for a faster more dynamic bass response.
The role of a centre-channel speaker is to reproduce up to 60% of a movie soundtrack, including the critical dialogue content. Yet by the sound of some rival systems, surprisingly little time is devoted to its design. The exceptional RX centre proves the old adage that you get out what you put in. It’s been very finely calibrated to match the dynamics and timbre of other RX speakers for a wonderfully open, detailed and seamless front sound stage in any RX system configuration.
We’ve tuned the RX centre’s multi-driver components to deliver the optimal combination of sonic virtue and size, so that the velvet subtlety of whispers and the explosive force of action scenes are conveyed with equal priority by a compact design that’s perfect for the role.
Specifications:
Frequency Response: 45 Hz – 35 kHz
Sensitivity: 90 dB (1 W @ 1 m)
Nominal Impedance: 6 ohms
Power Handling Single (RMS): 125 W
Recommended Amp. Requirements: 40 – 125 W
Maximum SPL: 114.8 dBA
Bass Alignment: Sealed enclosure
Tweeter Crossover Frequency: 3.0 kHz
Bass Crossover Frequency: 500 Hz
Drive Unit Complement: 1 x 160mm RST® cone mid-bass driver; 1 x 160mm RST® cone bass driver; 1 x 25mm C-CAM® gold dome tweeter
Dimensions: 500 (W) x 200 (D) x 185 (H) mm
Weight: 9.62 kg