What happens if you give a team of young and gifted acoustic engineers this simple brief: make the best sounding home hi-fi speakers possible? They tear up the rule book and create this, that’s what. Monitor Audio’s Concept 50 speakers are still being tweaked and finalized, but these sonic towers will become available by the end of the year – and the company is so confident in its other-worldly progeny that it just showcased them at the international premium hi-fi show, High End Munich. Concept 50 will continue the company’s 50th birthday celebrations and Monitor Audio clearly knows how to party; they currently weigh 96kg each, but product design director Charles Minett tells us that once fully finessed, one floorstanding speaker will tip the scales at 100kg – about the same weight as a newborn elephant calf.
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