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I compared the Monitor Audio Gold 300 6G with my own Dynaudio C2 Signature loudspeakers (discontinued, $15,000/pair when available). On “Keep the Wolves Away,” from Uncle Lucius’s 2012 album And You Are Me (16/44.1 FLAC, eOne Music / Tidal), the Gold 300s were tight and textured in the bass and delivered the guitar dynamically, with precision and tube-like sweetness. Images were focused and natural. The Dynaudio C2s, by comparison, sounded appreciably fuller in the low bass and had a richer, more complex harmonic palette. And they presented vocals with greater detail and warmth, more lifelike. Where the Gold 300 6Gs were a match for the C2s was in transient response. In fact, their delivery was more incisive than the C2s’. In view of this comparison and of my audition, last year, of the Monitor Audio Platinum 200 3G, I would say that the Gold 300 6G, while not quite at the level of a top-tier loudspeaker, offers much of the performance of one.

Conclusion

The Monitor Audio Gold 300 6G is a most capable, highly refined loudspeaker. It is neutral and transparent, revealing the subtlest recorded detail (and any upstream change to equipment and interconnects). It is fast and dynamic, and it is honest, adding neither warmth nor color to recordings. Given its neutrality and transparency, the Gold 300 6G would be a good match to a ruler-flat front end. I’d be reluctant to pair it with brighter components, though. All told, the Monitor Audio Gold 300 6G is a high-performance loudspeaker that lives up to its gold-standard pedigree.

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