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Monitor Audio

Bronze 300 7G

speaker

$1,000

Used market: $720*

Manufacturer datasheet

Specifications

7 of 6 values have a recorded source
System Type
Passive Floorstanding
Input Terminals
Binding posts
Min Impedance Dip ohms
4.4
Nominal Impedance ohms
8
Recommended Power watts
Max Continuous: 150 · Min Continuous: 40
Sensitivity dB 2.83V 1m
88

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Headroom Notes

88 dB at 2.83 V on an 8-ohm nominal, so the figure doubles as dB/W/m without correction. The recommendation to use is 40–150 W into 8 ohms; the parallel 75–300 W figure is quoted into 4 ohms, which is not this speaker's declared load.

Amplification Warning

Monitor Audio prints the impedance minimum together with the frequency at which it occurs — «4.4 Ohms @ 38 Hz» — which almost nobody else does. Knowing the dip sits at the port tuning frequency tells you it is a bass-region load, met at high excursion and high current. 4.4 ohms on an 8-ohm nominal is a mild dip by the standards of this batch.

What the datasheet actually says

Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.

Measurement conditions
«Recommended Amplifier Power (RMS, Music Signal) 75 - 300 W into 4 Ohms / 40 - 150 W into 8 Ohms»

The same table declares the speaker's nominal impedance as 8 ohms and then recommends amplifier power at two load impedances, one of which the speaker is not. The 4-ohm row describes what an amplifier delivers into a 4-ohm load, not what this speaker presents; read against the 8-ohm nominal, the two rows are the same amplifier described twice. Taking the larger pair of numbers as this speaker's power requirement overstates it by roughly a factor of two.

checked 8/5/2026

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~72% retained value). · checked on 8/5/2026