Editors' Choice Award 2024 – The Absolute Sound Magazine
"Recommended" - Hi-Fi Choice
"Exceeded My Expectations in Every Way" - The Absolute Sound
The Largest Speakers in the Bronze 6G Series
The Bronze 500 is the largest speaker in Monitor Audio's Bronze 6G series, delivering the powerful and detailed audio required by the most demanding audiophiles.
The pinnacle of the Bronze 6G series, the Bronze 500 6G has a larger cabinet housing a Monitor Audio 1" C-CAM Gold Dome tweeter featuring a Uniform Dispersion (UD) Waveguide, plus two new 8" drivers to power a bigger performance. With their powerful, natural and intricate performance, the Bronze 500s will thrill both music and movie lovers.
On its sturdy steel outrigger feet, the Bronze 500 stands at just under 40 inches tall and exude a graceful presence, which complements their beautifully detailed audio reproduction.The speakers look particularly stylish in Monitor Audio's new Urban Grey finish, which perfectly complements the décor of a modern room.
Award-Winning Performance
The Absolute Sound magazine honored the Bronze 500 6G with an Editors' Choice Award for 2024.
"The two-and-a-half-way Bronze 500s are extremely nice looking and designed for a wide range of room sizes, shapes, and system budgets. They include a 25mm C-Cam Gold Dome tweeter with a Uniform Dispersion waveguide, and two 8″ C-Cam mid/bass drivers. Nominal impedance is listed at 8 ohms and sensitivity at 90dB, which means they won’t need a massive amount of power."
"Sonically, they’re packed with lushness—a sound much bigger than their modest size and weight suggest. From delicate strings to solid-bodied bass lines, the Bronze 500s were a consistent pleasure across all genres and formats and should be on the radar of anyone building a new system or looking to upgrade."
"No Shrinking Violet"
"The Monitor Audio Bronze 500s exceeded my expectations in every way. Their design, their ease of setup, their rich tonal qualities, and subtle upper harmonics make for a robust and diverse loudspeaker," opines Drew Kalbach, The Absolute Sound, June 06, 2022. " It helps that they’re attractive and compact, competitively priced, and fit basically anywhere with a few extra feet to spare. These are easy to recommend, and I hate to see them go."
"The new Bronze 500 is no shrinking violet. Nor is it the sort of floorstander that you can tuck away discreetly in a corner and forget it’s there," notes Hi-Fi Choice, September 15, 2023, which awarded the 500 6G a Recommended award. "Both visually and sonically, it’s a speaker that will make its presence felt. The bottom line is good news on both counts. The biggest Bronze is a smart box that sounds very good indeed."
"Stands Tall Among Its Peers"
"The Monitor Audio Bronze 500 may have a compact stature, but it stands tall among its peers," observes Alex Röser, 7review.com.
"Few speakers in this price range have impressed us so completely. The British company combines room-filling performance, meticulous craftsmanship, and sensitive musicality in this sound artist. Considering some of the overrated competitors, we hope Monitor Audio achieves the breakthrough it deserves! "
The New Bronze 6G Series
The Bronze 6G series loudspeakers have been carefully designed to offer Monitor Audio’s British personality with an attractive contemporary touch. Featuring a complete upgrade for superior sound and build quality, everything about the Bronze 6G was created with you in mind.
The fresh cabinet designs have clean and simple lines, and are available in a choice of four contemporary finishes (White, Walnut, Urban Gray, and Black), with a sleek contrasting baffle and matching magnetic cloth-covered grille for an understated appearance.
One of the most eye-catching features of the speakers are the acoustically transparent hexagonal dispersion patterns on the tweeter cover. Bronze 6G speakers are a true part of the prestigious Monitor Audio speaker family, as the hexagonal design also features on the award-winning Silver and Gold series. This design gives Bronze a premium feel, allowing light to catch the distinctive gold tweeter dome behind the grille.
Industry-Leading Design and Sound Quality
The Bronze speakers are undoubtedly in a different class. Premium gold-plated terminals and Pureflow silver-plated oxygen-free copper internal cabling offer pure and secure cable connectivity. As you would expect with Monitor Audio, the Bronze Series delivers an industry-leading sound. Monitor Audio relied upon five decades of design heritage to ensure that Bronze 6G speakers offer an unforgettable performance wherever they are used in your home.
The Bronze Series features a new Uniform Dispersion (UD) Waveguide, which combines with Monitor Audio's signature C-CAM Gold Dome Tweeter to give even sound dispersion, improved time alignment, and wider directivity for lifelike sound.
Improved C-CAM Drivers have been specially engineered using conical diaphragm geometry for increased control and Damped Concentric Mode (DCM) technology for a more accurate time response. The drivers also feature a larger diameter voice coil to allow production of higher sound pressure levels. These design enhancements allow the Bronze Series to deliver a smoother, tighter bass.
Setting the Standard as a Class Leader
Since its first launch two decades ago, the multi award-winning Bronze Series has set the standard as a class leader and today there are thousands of satisfied owners across the globe.
All of the Bronze speakers have been designed to please any music or movie lover. Their attractive design and choice of finishes ensures that they will complement any room in the home.
"Exciting"
"Listening to Michael Jackson, the Bronze 500 is just as exciting. The electronic rhythm of 'They Don’t Really Care about Us' is strong, but it does not just pursue the deep low frequencies but the rhythm of speed. That is the strength of Bronze 500," notes hifireport.com, October 10, 2023.
"If you have a limited budget, the Bronze 6G series can be used as a starting point for listening to music, and it can also be used as a starting point with Monitor Audio."