$325 · Monitor Audio Bronze BR2 speakers

MINT like new. Like all Bronze speakers, the BR2 features a 1" dome tweeter made of what Monitor calls Ceramic-Coated Aluminum Magnesium (C-CAM). According to the company, the benefits of making tweeters of C-CAM vs. the more conventional aluminum are extended frequency response, higher sensitivity, and greater detail. The C-CAM tweeter also has a rear-mounted damping chamber said to more smoothly respond to the input signal. The gold-topped tweeter dome is covered by a fixed grille of metal equidistant from the woofer below it and the 1.5" port above it, giving the front baffle a nice symmetry. The 6.5" woofer cone is made of Metal Matrix Polymer, version 2 (MMP II), a material that, Monitor claims, provides the qualities required of all driver cones -- great stiffness and low mass -- while being compatible with Monitor’s high-pressure injection-molding process. Monitor says that this process allows its engineers to specify different thicknesses at different points in the cone: thicker where greater stiffness is needed, thinner where lower mass is critical to achieving better performance. This varying thickness, the company says, results in a cone with superior sonic properties, and thus a better-sounding loudspeaker. The woofer incorporates two other technologies said to increase performance. The first is the driver’s nonmagnetic, glass-infused, cast-polymer basket, designed to provide a strong foundation for the MMP II cone while being inherently immune to vibrations. While you can’t see the woofer’s basket from outside the BR2, it would be hard to miss the pointed metal phase plug that stands proud of the woofer’s center point. Done in glossy black, the dome contrasts nicely with the cone’s silvery finish. But the plug isn’t there to just look nice; Monitor says it greatly improves the BR2’s off-axis midrange response. That should translate into a wider midrange. Located in the South Okanagan but will be travelling to Victoria for Christmas if roads are clear. Shipping Available at buyers expense