The Article
Monitor Audio Gold 200 Speakers on YouTube
7th April 2020
Taken from the company’s high-end series of speakers, Paul Rigby tackles these relatively compact floor-standing designs
And they are quite compact, sitting relatively low to the ground…
I compare them to lower costs floor standers to see what you get for that higher price…
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Hi,
Thank you for this review, and thank you for comparing them in a side-by-side evaluation, this should happen more often. I am actually considering purchasing the Gold 200 5G. What is putting me off is that I currently have the Gold 100 4G and try as I might, I am just not getting on with them. As clear and as transparent as they are, they just sound to my ears, a little too cold. I understand that the new MPD tweeter is much better than the ribbon in the Gold 4G’s, but part of me wonders whether I’d be happier with the Silver 300’s classic dome tweeter? I also wonder if part of my disliking of the Gold 100 4G is my amp, a Cambridge Audio 851W (with 851N). I wonder if a different amp would add a little warmth? Either way I will try changing speakers before I consider changing amp. Thanks for the review and keep up the good work, and please if you can try and do more side by side comparisons, I find these very helpful.
Hi Tony – I would always recommend upgrading further up the chain first. Be happy with the upper chain area first and then upgrade down the chain after. Hence, get your turntable or CD player or Streamer right first, then your phono amp then your main amp and then your speakers. Don’t forget ancillaries too. You will only hear 60% of your system if you don’t pay attention to your ancillaries. So yes, you’re right to consider the am (and the source perhaps?)
Sorry, I forgot to ask in my last comment; Given the Gold 200 are over £1500 more expensive than the Silver 300, do you think the improvements are significant enough to justify the extra expense?
Hi Tony – yes they are. If you have the cash and are happy to spend then go for it. If you’re struggling to find the money or a are generally happy with your system then it might be wise to tweak elsewhere, around the source area or ancillaries to enhance what you already have, for example.
Little question Paul aside from gik acoustics I have been vieweing a company called Au-acoustics yet see no recommendations for them their products look good? Are you aware of this company any idea about them
New to me, I’m afraid John – do you have a link?
Hi,
Would you connect them with Moon Neo Ace or the Naim Uniti Atom is better? Or similar in this price range (3000$)
I much prefer the Ace, radek.
I’d go with moon, don’t get me wrong naim are phenomenal but I’d say moon have the better edge
Mr. Rigby,
In the introduction of your recent (2023) ‘follow-on’ review of the Monitor Audio (MA) Gold 200 5G speakers, you used the term “game changer” to describe both what you observed during your second time around with it, and also the potential impact of the ‘4 ohm mode’ on certain potential customers of this model speaker. I believe that I am one of those. About three years ago, while putting together my small ‘comeback-after-40-years-away-from-hifi’ system, I did a lot of homework about this avocation in the modern day, and chose the MA Silver 200 6G speakers with which to begin my return.
Your second review only months ago locked in my decision to upgrade, as I recently began searching for the MA Gold 200 5G. Although scarce in the western U.S. I found a ‘New Old Stock’ set in Germany, on ebay, and even in my preferred color finish! I expect their arrival here next week. I am grateful for the timing of your second review, and for the good fortune in the fact that you chose to do it, at all. Much obliged, sir!
Hi Gary – glad you found the review of use – thanks for reading.