Let’s stick with Monitor Audio like the OP has.
It is a different model, but I see:
- Cabinet resonances
- The step function is upside down
- The impulse response is a bit ratty at the onset.
- high distortion at 96dB, which is likely speaker compression.
- That would affect loud passages which can be 20dB higher than the RMS SPL for say uncompressed classical or jazz recordings listened to even at 75-80 dB.
- And as we add more distance from the listener to the speaker, this ability to handle higher drive power, gets to be more and more important.
I can see nothing on the monitor audio web site that would suggest that they have fixed the issues, other than they did mentioned somthing about vibration work at a lab, so maybe the resonances were addressed??
Yeah other speakers at the higher end, have (and have had) low resonances and low compression… so it is not like current state of the art is in this (discontinued model). We would need to see a test of a current model to know for sure.
(And whether that is distressing to the sound, is dependant upon the listener.)
The conclusion in ^that link^ Is as follows:
Conclusions
The Silver 100 looks gorgeous and seems to have good engineering behind it to create a good response. It does however have a few small scale flaws. Because their scale was small, it was hard to evaluate their impact and develop correction for it. All else being equal, I rather see a speaker with larger error that are easy to identify and fix. Such was not the case here. I let you judge its performance then based on data you see as my subjective assessment is weak in this regard.
I am going to give a recommendation to Monitor Audio Silver 100 with the bit of EQ in place. Hopefully we can get our hands on the "G7" version to see if they have made any refinements that mitigate the issues I found.