I'm a big audio nut. I love music, but I also love the technology, the science and everything else associated with audio. Unsurprisingly I like Hi-fi, or as it was called in my youth "separates".
I recently moved house and I finally have a sitting room big enough to do justice to set a speakers I always wanted but couldn't properly house.
Monitor Audio Gold Reference 60
(Mine are in light oak not rosewood).
Prior to investing in the GR60s I had the GR20s. I have been a keen advocate of Monitor Audio for years but I thought that they got "affordable high-end" right with the Gold Reference series. I'm sure there is no shortage of folks out in the electronic nether-land who will only be too happy to disabuse me of my ignorance regarding my choice of loudspeakers, but I have to say that they suit me and my budget.
Monitor Audio Gold Reference 20
Monitor Audio Gold Reference 20
The GR60s ceased being made about seven years ago so mine are second hand. I had looked at the Gold Signature 60 they brought out after they stopped making the GR60. I never much cared for them. They did have a little more bass clout but seemed to be missing the upper-midrange speed that I have always admired in the GR20s (if you are an audio nut you can read a clumsily worded review about the GR20s here:
Monitor audio have a new gold range that is radical departure from the previous gold range. The floorstanders now utilise ribbon tweeters, a 4" midrange driver and then two bass drivers (either 5.5" or 6.5" depending on which model). You can take a goosey here: