Spring 2025 | 15 Based in the heart of Essex, Monitor Audio Group is an independent and quality-focused British audio manufacturer renowned for enhancing the listening experience at every price point. Anchored to excellence by a diverse, world-class team comprising skilled audio engineers, product designers, and manufacturing specialists, the brand’s more than 100 years of combined experienced see the bar continuously raised in the field of high-fidelity audio, making it a fitting recipient of the award for Best Home Audio Technology Manufacturer 2025 – UK. Britain’s Independent, Accessible Audio Brand One such review is for the company’s Hyphn loudspeaker, which was released in 2023 to stand primarily as a peerless, definitive, and uncompromising demonstration of both Monitor Audio’s current design and engineering prowess as well as its future ambitions. Quite unlike anything else that has been ever created – something that its unashamedly expensive price tag reflects – this is one of the most creative, ambitious, and technically advanced loudspeakers to be designed and built anywhere in the world. Explaining this uncompromising and visually striking line in more detail is one of the company’s senior product designers, Emily Hesslegrave. As Emily tells us: “Hyphn was born out of collaboration between our designers and engineers, who set out to build the best loudspeaker anyone has ever heard, an ambition that’s easy to express, but a lot more challenging to achieve. She continues: “Hyphn is intended to be a ‘statement’ loudspeaker both technically and visually. It is also designed for ‘real’ rooms, taking into account and addressing all the inherent constraints and compromises this entails.” Whilst the Hyphn loudspeaker may be out of the question for many as a result of its hefty price tag, those wishing to experience quality without compromise need not fear – as all of the products bearing the mark of Monitor Audio – or Roksan and Blok, the company’s two additional brands – are built atop the same Transparent Design Philosophy. Essentially, this ethos encompasses a belief that high-fidelity products should produce sound as accurate to the artist’s intention as possible, resulting in total transparency. It is not only the sound that should reflect this philosophy however, and the design team ensure that the physical design of their audio systems are equally as harmonious, building off of centuries of British manufacturing excellence to achieve this. Further reinforcing the British nature of the brand, all products are designed and engineered by Monitor Audio’s in-house team, with its flagships still being built by hand at the company’s headquarters to this day, in the same building it has called home since 2000. A distinctly British company, Monitor Audio Group continues to embody luxury through best-in-class home audio solutions and exceptional customer service and support. Keeping one eye on the needs of the market and the other on its products, this is a company that is continuing to define its legacy well into its sixth decade, and its string of recent innovations make it more than worthy of this acclaim. Contact: Matthew Miller Company: Monitor Audio Group Web Address: https://www.monitoraudio.com/ s Britain’s largest independently owned audio brand, Monitor Audio Group has made its mission to influence people to Listen Again. It is true that great audio is made possible with premium materials and innovative technologies – both of which the team here specialise in – but behind every superior sound system that Monitor Audio crafts is the desire to reach the warmth, the flesh and blood, of the listener. This commitment has been at the centre of the brand since it first opened its doors more than 52 years ago. Ever since Mo Iqbal established Monitor Audio in 1972 and worked with a close-knit team of engineers to develop its first loudspeaker, the MA1, moving the needle has been in the brand’s DNA. Initially starting out in a small facility outside of Cambridge, 1976 saw the company take its operation to new heights, moving the entire process in-house from its new, purpose-built factory in Essex. The move unlocked a world of possibilities, and the following decades saw everything from the introduction of gold tweeters for optimum sound to the release of the globally acclaimed Studio 20SE sound system. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the innovations spearheaded by Monitor Audio over the years, and it is this same pioneering spirit that continues to go into the design and manufacturing of every speaker in the company’s comprehensive line today. From the Studio 89 bookshelf speaker to the Antra W15 subwoofer and everything in between, this range is the most thrilling way to enjoy music, film, and television in the home. Verifying this are countless glowing reviews from the likes of What Hi-Fi? and GQ. A
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