MONITOR AUDIO LAUNCHES CREATOR SERIES CUSTOM INSTALLATION RANGE OF SPEAKERS

Monitor Audio has launched a new Custom Install series, Creator, at ISE 2023 in Barcelona.

The new models featuring advanced acoustic technologies and smart installer features, segmented into a simple, innovative tiered approach to range classification for flexible system creation for installers.

MONITOR AUDIO CREATOR SERIES

Monitor Audio has announced the launch of the new Creator Series of high-performance in-wall and in-ceiling loudspeakers. The new Creator Series features nineteen models, fourteen in-ceiling and five in-wall, arranged in three clearly defined tiers. Each of these offers enhanced performance levels and additional functionality over the preceding tier.

Monitor Audio Creator Series in situ

INSTALLER FRIENDLY

Through Monitor Audio’s Partner Programme (MAPP), extensive feedback from a wide network of experienced installers has been collected and analysed. As a result, Creator Series is a more simplified range and accessory offering, ensuring performance levels are clearly defined. Streamlined and enhanced technologies, naming, applications, and solutions, make the whole process of product selection much more straightforward for the integrator.

QUIKLINK

An innovation within the series, is the use of the patent-pending Quik-Link’ terminal. This revolutionises speed of installation. Quik-Link allows the installer to remove the terminal block from the physical speaker and pre-terminate the speaker cables to it. Once the speaker is ready to be fitted within its cut-out, the Quik-Link can be offered up to the connection point on the speaker and magnetically snaps and locks into place.

Other features include Tri-Grip II, an evolution of the dog-leg mechanism that is considerably stronger and more reliable than the previous generation, making both speaker placement and extraction even simpler. On the four Controlled Performance (CP) models in the Creator Series, built-in back boxes mean hassle-free installation and controllable sound, even in the trickiest of applications.

Monitor Audio Creator Series W2M

DRIVER TECHNOLOGY

Across medium and large in-ceiling speaker sizes, the acoustic team have kept the overall cut-out sizes the same as previous models yet increased the driver size from 6.5” to 7” and from 8” to 9” inch drivers.

Driver technology has also been carefully configured within each Tier from C-CAM tweeters and mid-bass drivers (Tier 1), RST II mid-range and bass drivers (Tier 2), and RST II mid-range drivers and RDT III bass drivers (Tier 3). The Tier 3 in-wall model also boasts an MPD II transducer based on the THX Certified Ultra, Cinergy home cinema series.

MONITOR AUDIO CREATOR SERIES TIERS

The new Creator Series features nineteen models, split over three performance Tiers:

TIER 1

A range of in-ceiling and in-wall loudspeakers designed for cost effective installations where product simplicity and solid acoustic performance is required. All Tier 1 speakers are a 2-way configuration and feature new C-CAM mid-bass drivers and C-CAM tweeters with Uniform Dispersion (UD) Waveguide I.

TIER 2

All Tier 2 speakers are a 2-way configuration, with RST II mid-bass drivers, based on those found in the award-winning Silver 7G range, and C-CAM tweeters with Uniform Dispersion (UD) Waveguide II. Tier 2 models boast additional features that allow more freedom in speaker placement, such as boundary correction and high-frequency cut/boost. Where enhanced performance is required, Tier 2 models offer a significant step up over Tier 1 models. As part of the enhanced flexibility of the Tier 2 in-ceiling models, the new T2X combines the previous generation’s ‘T2’ and ‘FX’ to bring all the qualities of each into one highly versatile speaker that can be used in ‘cinema mono FX’, ‘mono wide dispersion’ and ‘single stereo’ modes.

Monitor Audio Creator Series Tier 2

TIER 3

All Tier 3 in-ceiling speakers are a 3-way configuration with RDT III bass drivers, based on those found in the new Platinum Series 3G. A new Inverted Dual Concentric II (IDC II) coaxial mid/tweeter range driver array, a ground up redesign, now features a larger voice coil to ensure the Uniform Dispersion (UD) Waveguide II can be used to control the high-frequency directivity. Effectively a point source, it creates an exceptionally large soundstage in the listening environment.

Additionally, the C3L-A offers a fixed-angle IDC II for focused sound, ideal for in-ceiling LCR placement. The now fixed 25 degrees of angle, ensures that the linearity of the speaker isn’t compromised and provides impressively wide dispersion into the listening area. The Tier 3 W3M in-wall speaker is a high-performance 3-way arrangement based on THX-certified Ultra Cinergy Series technology. It features an RST II mid-driver and MPD II transducer, which is positioned between dual RDT III bass drivers. A new rotatable IDC II coaxial mid/tweeter driver array is placed at the acoustic centre of the speaker, which improves versatility for use in LCR placement.

Monitor Audio Creator Series launched at ISE 2023

MONITOR AUDIO CREATOR SERIES PRICING

Creator Series C1S In-Ceiling Small £250

Creator Series C1M In-Ceiling Medium £300

Creator Series C1L In-Ceiling Large £350

Creator Series C2S In-Ceiling Small £350

Creator Series C2M In-Ceiling Medium £400

Creator Series C2L In-Ceiling Large £450

Creator Series C2M-CP In-Ceiling Medium £450

Creator Series C2L-CP In-Ceiling Large £500

Creator Series C2M-T2X Stereo In-Ceiling Medium £350

Creator Series C2L-T2X Stereo In-Ceiling Large £400

Creator Series C3M In-Ceiling Large £650

Creator Series C3L In-Ceiling Large £750

Creator Series C3L-A Fixed Angle In-Ceiling Large £950

Creator Series C3L-CP In-Ceiling Large £850

Creator Series W1M-E In-Wall Medium £300

Creator Series W1M In-Wall Medium £400

Creator Series W2M In-Wall Medium £600

Creator Series W2M-CP In-Wall Medium £800

Creator Series W3M In-Wall Medium £1,000

Availability: The Creator Series will be available in Summer 2023.

HiFi Pig Says: HiFi Pig will be at ISE 2023 in Barcelona to check out the new Monitor Audio products.