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I’VE REVIEWED many Monitor Audio speakers over the years. When I lived in California I reviewed the Silver 10s. Later, after I moved east, I bought a pair of the Silver 10s (actually three of them—long story), and when Monitor released a proper three-way Silver Series center speaker, I acquired one of those, too. When other speakers aren’t in-house for review, that Silver trio becomes the core of a Franken-system that includes surrounds, overhead Atmos speakers, and subwoofers from other brands.
The Silver Series, now in its 7th generation—hence the 7G designation—has evolved continuously over the years, both in refinement and, not surprisingly, price (Monitor Audio is hardly alone here). The speakers are designed at Monitor’s headquarters in the U.K. and built in a company-owned plant in China. For this review, we assembled a 5.1.2 system comprising a pair of Silver 300 7G towers—the second largest of three floorstanders—the new Silver C250 7G center speaker, a pair of Silver 50 7G bookshelf models (used here as surrounds), and a pair of Silver AMS 7G Dolby Atmos-enabled modules. The company has yet to offer a 7G subwoofer for its Silver Series, so we completed the system with a single Silver W-12 6G sub.
For more than 30 years, Monitor Audio has been making speaker cones out of a material they call C-CAM (ceramic-coated aluminum/magnesium)—a thin, light alloy of aluminum and magnesium with a ceramic (alumina) layer. The cones are dimpled to increase rigidity using
