Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G Bookshelf Speaker - Macassar, Pair

Award Winner 2025 – hi-fi+ Magazine

Applause Award – stereonet.com

Recommended – audiograde.uk

Power, Substantial Bookshelf Speaker with Deep, Extended Bass

A powerful performer, the Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G is a substantial stand-mount bookshelf speaker. Creating an astonishing soundstage, it is capable of deep extended bass plus beautifully lifelike mid-frequency and high-frequency definition.

The Gold 100 6G delivers outstanding levels of high-fidelity sound with consummate ease. Its design features the latest MPD III high-frequency transduce, which is an exceptional and innovative tweeter. The new 3" mid-driver, and a powerful 8" bass driver both benefit from the latest HDT, C-CAM cone technology and hugely powerful motor systems.

Award Winning Performance

The Gold 100 6G was the <hi-fi+ Award Winner 2025 in the Stand-mount Speaker up to £5K category.

"The Gold 100 6G impresses with its soundstage and tonal balance. In our test, Simon Lucas felt that 'the Gold 100 6G seem far more concerned with engaging on a purely musical level – they can do the 'scrutiny' thing, but it's never at the expense of 'entertainment.'"

"This ultimately makes them a commendable choice for those seeking that rare thing: a high-performance stand-mount. Monitor Audio's dedication to maintaining this tradition of quality in smaller three-way designs is worthy of note."

"Enjoyable and Insightful"

The Gold 100 6G won an Applause Award – from stereonet.com, which notes, "If any design can bring larger standmounters back into fashion, it is the latest sixth-generation Monitor Audio Gold 100… This is a very well-designed, built and packaged speaker from a company that is at the top of its game right now. It delivers a smooth, natural sound that is highly musically engaging and has good dynamics when powered by a suitably strong amplifier."

"The bigger design pays off to deliver one of the most enjoyable and insightful sounds I’ve heard in a long time," notes Lee Dunkley at audiograde.uk, which honored the Gold 100 6G with "Recommended" status. "These are easy to install speakers ideally suited to mid-sized rooms. Just remember that despite the bookshelf categorisation, you’ll need to factor in the additional cost of a pair of dedicated speaker stands."

Light, Strong, and Powerful New HDT, C-CAM Cone

Monitor Audio has been leading the industry in the field of metal driver cone technology for over 40 years. So, it’s no surprise that the new Gold Series 6G pushes the boundaries once again, with a totally new metal cone technology in the form of HDT (Hexagonal Diaphragm Technology).

HDT draws on the design of the RDT III cones used in Hyphn and the Platinum Series, which consist of a Nomex honeycomb layer sandwiched between aluminum and carbon fiber skins. The new HDT cone employs a hexagonal pattern to disrupt symmetries in the cone breakup, which shifts the frequency up by 10% compared to the RST II cones on the Silver Series 7G.

The use of C-CAM over standard aluminum also results in a stronger, more fatigue-resistant cone. This means that Gold Series 6G drivers perform exactly as Monitor Audio’s engineers intended for as long as you live with the speakers – dynamic passages are delivered with exceptional precision, offering true high-fidelity playback.

Impactful, Dynamic and Controlled Bass

The new HDT, C-CAM cone features FEA-optimized surround and spider designs along with increased voice coil length. As a result, the new Gold Series 6G’s 6" and 8" bass drivers exhibit greater linearity, reducing distortion for cleaner and punchier low end. They are rigidly secured in place by a new cast aluminum, light-weight chassis design, which provides the optimum structure with maximum airflow around the drive unit.

'Through-bolted' to the rear of the cabinet for improved strength of the overall ‘system’, Gold Series 6G drive units produce masses of dynamic bass with low distortion and total control.

"Can Stereo Get Much Better Than This?"

"While listening to the Gold 100s play music – and this is telling of how they communicated to me – I often wondered, 'Can stereo get much better than this?'" wonders Robert Schryer, pmamagazine.org, February 13, 2025.

"Remember the days when standmounts had no bass and were considered a compromise compared to floorstanders? The Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G is an example of how much bass a modern, properly designed monitor can deliver, and it is no compromise. Not once during my audition of the British speakers did I think, 'They need a subwoofer.' The 100s sounded complete."

Compact, Controlled, and Crystal Clear 3-Inch Mid-Driver

The Gold Series 6G features a totally new 3-inch mid-driver. Being smaller in diameter means the cone break-up occurs well above the upper crossover frequency, eliminating any distortion this would create and providing a smooth transition to the MPD III high- frequency transducer.

This new driver is housed within a dedicated steel enclosure, providing the exact volume required for optimum performance without compromising the cabinet volume needed for bass response. This approach ensures there’s no interference between the two, for a cleaner more precise and detailed presentation.

MPD III Flagship Tweeter Technology

The latest generation of Monitor Audio’s MPD III (Micro Pleated Diaphragm) transducer delivers precise high-frequency sound with greater consistency, clarity and accuracy. The detail achieved makes music sound lifelike, crisp and real. Fine-tuned for effortless musicality.

The revised transducer design for the Gold Series 6G is heavily influenced by the transducer used in Hyphn and the Platinum Series. The Micro Pleated Diaphragm (MPD) extends tweeter passband to >60 kHz (compared to >40 kHz for a typical AMT). Square radiating area ensures equal directivity in horizontal and vertical planes, resulting in an improved soundstage.

An optimized rear volume ensures minimal ripple in audible frequency range, while the optimized waveguide offers controlled directivity and radiation impedance matching, further improving soundstage and maximizing sensitivity.

Premium Crossover Design for the Purest of Signals

Gold Series 6G’s crossovers have been developed using high-quality capacitors and have undergone hundreds of hours of listening by Monitor Audio’s acoustics team. Many iterations have been repeatedly tested to ensure the smoothest, cleanest audio signal is delivered to each drive unit. They deliver the purity of sound and performance that you’d normally expect from speakers costing two or three times as much.

"Outstanding Levels of Detail and Resolution"

"A somewhat rare animal the Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G may be, however, it benefits from its unusual configuration by providing small floorstander levels of dynamic expression and low frequency depth coupled to a more compact form factor," reports Edgar Kramer, soundstageaustralia.com, November 15, 2024.

"Gold 100 6G also takes full advantage of Monitor Audio’s substantial experience in engineering advanced materials technologies for its exceptional in-house built drivers. The result is a lively, captivating loudspeaker capable of outstanding levels of detail and resolution, consequentially providing deep insights into the music."

Gold in Every Sense of the Word

The all-new, totally redesigned Gold Series 6G leaves no detail unrevealed, as Monitor Audio Group delivers the finest, most exhilarating loudspeaker range yet to bear the Gold Series name.

Each model meets a defined user requirement, adds innovative acoustic technologies, and is crafted to celebrate and exude distinctiveness and quality. Building on over three decades of heritage, Gold Series 6G represents the start of an epic new way to experience the joy of sensational sound.

As Beautifully Finished as Luxury Furniture

All Gold Series 6G’s cabinets are designed to form the most rigid structure possible, which allows the drivers to perform to their optimum capabilities. Coupled with cleverly calculated geometry, advanced bracing techniques, and technically accurate crossovers, the cabinets are an important element of the total system.

The Macassar wood veneer introduced on Gold Series 6G is man-made, with a quality and luster that exudes real ebony. Using it offers a significant reduction compared to the carbon impact of traditional methods of real-wood veneered production.

Completed in beautiful, contemporary high-gloss, painted and veneered finishes, Gold Series 6G exudes a quality that continues to ensure Monitor Audio retains its reputation as a world leader in speaker cabinet design.