Mon Acoustic PlatiMon VC One Bookshelf Speaker Review
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Mon Acoustic PlatiMon Virtual Coaxial One (VC One, MSRP: $6,500/pair) is their latest effort to product a SOTA monitor speaker system. Mon Acoustic rates the PlatiMon VC One from 45 Hz to 28K Hz. Their in-house designed AMT tweeter is reported to produce higher frequencies from 3,100 Hz up to 28,000 Hz. The main German 5″ drivers handle low to high frequency from 53 Hz to 3,100 Hz with sensitivity at 91dB. In terms of outer construction, the enclosure on the speaker is reinforced with the highest quality 6601-grade aluminum for rigidity and inertness. The PlatiMon VC One weighing in at 32 lbs/ea has dedicated left/right designations with optimized internal dampening for each speaker. @therealshanelee gives a detailed listening impression of the VC One’s vs his reference Perlisten R5t and Focal Diablos he had in for review. These are some serious speakers the look and sound the part.
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I wasn't aware of Shane being part of the Audioholics team? but Shane is a very good reviewer and would be/is a great direction for the channel. So glad to see this. btw the crossover looked topnotch.
Now THAT is a quality video. Thank you!
Thanks for the review
Based on this review, it appears that the tweeters are highly directional and these speakers can sound great if you're in precisely the right listening position...which can be frustration for multiple listeners or if you are casually listening while moving around.
Agreed. There are better, more economical options if getting good sound for multiple listeners is your concern.
other reviewers are lovin them too, with subs sounds like could be endgame for a lot of people
Great vid, would put those on the short list in the $ range.
I am pretty sure it is 6061 aluminum material...not just 606. Interesting speaker component for sure.
You got that right!
I really like the ball bearing isolation. At 35lbs I’m kind of afraid of it having abrupt metal edges. For aluminum they did a really good job of smoothing the finish. I would suggest a more amorphous flowing design for the next iteration. For grip, softness of feel, and softness of presence.
Angular edges come naturally when terminating a waveguide in a tight mtm configuration, and more time for machining adds up. My thoughts dwell on the shape presence as we know it’s heavy, and being thermally conductive it will also feel cold, so making it a little less sharp, both in a tactile and visual sense, may bring a bit of warmth back into the experience.
The psychoacoustic effects of visual presentation are quite strong. Especially in the context of first impressions.
Sorry to dwell on such a superficial aspect, It’s merely what came to mind, it’s not a flaw, as these speakers style is well executed, it’s just a small piece of a larger conversation seldom explored with other speakers. I just moved some 60lbs towers up and down stairs, and was very thankful that it had a radiused front baffle for my grip. The bottom right angles do really bite into the fingers. With something standmount I feel you very much become visually reminded of how comfortable it is to hold the speaker, and we all know after a few bottles of wine that speaker is coming over to the couch with us. I have theorized that one of the reasons women find speakers so intrusive in their space, is that they are difficult to move. So instead of putting them away like a sock on the floor, they need to get the person who put it there to move it for them, and then the contention of thinking about the conversation imparts it’s own stress resulting in speaker resentment. What I think would be cool, would be a speaker that comes in heavy pieces, and snaps together. Or has handles. The more we machine the cabinet as a final product, the more such features open up. Take for example the handles built into the 4 corners of Apple G4 and G5 computer towers. The 4 corners of the case were both feet and hand holds. With a point free corner.
Ergonomics can be very expensive, but so can speakers. Maybe it’s worthwhile for these elements to be more explored. Maybe we should build wheels into speakers like luggage, or a rear pair and rear handle to make towers into self contained dolly’s. I’m telling ya it will be the next status symbol, you can tell a good speakers because it will have enormous overkill tires on it with blinging chrome wheels. And precision filled with 67%nitrogen/22%helium/11%argon to exacting psi.
Jay Iyagi absolutely gushed over these speakers. Take that for what you will, but Shane's assessment does match up with a lot of what Jay said. I'd be very interested in hearing these for myself, but given that I'm a more Home Theater- than a 2-channel guy, I can't see myself investing in these unless they are so much better than anything else that it would be worth the money and time to make a complete HT setup out of these bookshelves/monitors. But it is sounding more and more like these should be on your short list if you are piecing together an end-game 2-channel setup.
Jay is a nice guy but Shane definitely more seasoned imo. Jay uses words that reflect his feelings rather than what the speakers/product is actually doing.
I think the approaches are different. You won’t describe a cup cake experience the same way as others who shared the experience. 😅
@@newdevilman1167 You got me there. Point taken.
With the measurements the company provided, as I looked closer I can see 10db dips and peaks in the crucial midrange section, which is madness. I dont know how accuarate that graph is but just by going with that graph, again, provided by the manufacturer themselves, show that this is one heavily voiced speaker. Should be great for people that buy what they want for how it sounds like but a nightmare for people that want an accurate sound. Im willing to compromise 2 or 3db peaks and dips for 'voicing' but 10db is just way too far out my objective comfort zone. I would like to see these or any of their speakers out on a klippel or at least proper quasi anechoic measurements done to it.
Very interesting. Compare to my vintage, 1997, B&W Matrix 805s, which measure +/- 1.5 dB from 52 Hz to 18 kHz . The only speakers I’ve seen that are more neutral are DSP’d studio monitors.
I think the Jay fellow really liked these. Surely can't complain about the build quality of that enclosure.
7:48 the scale they use is insane....people unfamiliar with reading graphs will think that looks flat. a bit misleading, I've never a seen such a vast scale for speaker measurements.
@@ACM1000000PT You couldn't buy the crossover (I'm guessing here) parts for 650.
In-room measurements aren't truly representative of speaker performance since the room heavily favors especially below the transition frequency. It's good to show the response at MLP, however. For more precise measurements we do outdoor with James Larsonm but the same people bitching about an In-room measurement Shane did, bitch about James Larsons tech presentations being boring. You can't please everyone and I'm perfectly fine with that.
@ACM1000000PT please learn English before writing complaints.
@@Audioholics I'm well aware of the differences. Besides, the time I quoted is not a Shane measurement. It's a nonsense 110db scale measurement from Mon. I'm much more appreciative of in-room measurements by reviewers than what some manufacturers post.
Oh, and to me, James' presentations are extremely valuable. Especially the work he puts in to get accurate measurements for all of us.
@@ACM1000000PT the alloy box it's designed around would cost several hundred dollars by itself. parts alone this speaker pair is worth $1000+. "Worth" is all relative anyways.
Hey how you doing do you think that the Marantz MM7055
Is a good amp
We listend them with PlatiMon Virtual Coaxial two then it is a different Story
"The inside is lined with leather". Where? ONLY on the backside of the drivers..??? 🤦♀
1:23 "The inside of the SPEAKER is lined with leather" Inside the DRIVERS???
1:44 "Each side of the SPEAKER is lined with different absorption" So the INSIDE of the speaker AND the outside of it???
Hi dear I was watching your video about this speakers. How do we select a to buy. Is it we have to check sensitivity? Watts minimum and maximum? I listen in volume only , but it is not comfortable? In hearing , please advise me how to buy a good book shelf speakers. I have tower speakers with me Klipsch RF 8000 F. I am very happy in sound.
Be very careful dealing with min acoustics, they are unprofessional and charged me $500 for speakers that they never even delivered and refuse to refund it. Terrible customer service and an awful experience all round
Mon's web site no longer working BTW.
Dude! In future reviews either turn the background music up or turn it off.
But thanks for the review
I would have rather heard them.
Find a dealer for a demo, not some bogus demo on RUclips, which will sound nothing like the actual speakers playing in your room.
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He didnt like them, hes just putting in a good word for them. Notice he said he was disappointed when he first started listening to them. Then all of the sudden, he put some metal balls on them, then he magically started to like them.
Watch again. He raised the height of the speaker so tweeter was at ear level. Boggles the mind when people complain but don't actually listen to what is said.
$6500 and they recommended $2500 audio cables for them after I added to my cart.
I can’t afford to be an audiophile…
That’s the same cable materials as the crossover wires inside PlatiMon, mainly silver based.
😂. They kill me with the cable stuff.
@@bigjack79 well, I think when you buy luxury goods, there isn’t much of logical cost proportions any more.
It’s like someone with honda civic type R buying $3000 custom rims. Or spending $20k car stereo. I don’t judge, do I think it’s sensible? Not for me, but they have different values for different people. You don’t want to live in a world where there are not many choices in products. It would be seriously boring.
Can you imagine there are only two hamburger joints left? Which are McDonald’s and Burger King? No thanks…
Yea that is a bit ridiculous. They sent me some cables to test so I will see if they at least measure well.
Kanye West - really?
Eeew and agreed. 😆
Hahaha