Monitor Audio PL500 Ⅱ

摘要

Monitor Audio's PL500 Ⅱ loudspeakers, the flagship of its heavily revised Platinum Ⅱ line-up - and thus the company's entire range - are big, make no mistake about it. Selling for £15,000 a pair, they stand a smidge under 1.85m tall, so are going to need a big room, preferably with a high ceiling, if their three-way, seven-driver configuration is going to be allowed to do its thing. These are the most ambitious speakers in the Essex-based company's history, and an all-new design - they may carry the same 'Ⅱ' suffix as the other models in the latest Platinum range but, unlike the PL100 Ⅱ, PL200 Ⅱ and PL300 Ⅱ, they don't replace a previous design. Instead they sit way above anything else the company has previously attempted, and are pitched right into the closely-fought 'world's best speakers' territory. We're a very long way from the little Bronze 2 speakers [HFN Feb '16] down at Monitor Audio's entry-level.