Monitor Audio Studio 89 Bookshelf Speakers - Gloss Black - Pair

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Monitor Audio Studio 89 Product Manual (PDF Format)

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Product of the Year Award 2025 – stereonet.com

"This suavely-styled new compact mid-price standmounter deploys technologies developed for Monitor Audio's superb flagship Hyphn loudspeaker to significant effect. Deeper than it is tall, this unusually proportioned design has a sublime finish, and the company's latest drive units are positioned in a vertically symmetrical layout. Locate it a little away from a boundary wall to give its rear-facing narrow-velocity ports room to breathe, and the result is a super-clean, open and engaging sound. This is a seriously special speaker with a delicacy that's rare at or anywhere near its price."

- stereonet.com, December 2024

Five Stars – techradar.com

"Looking backwards in order to move forwards is a bold and dangerous policy – but with the Studio 89, Monitor Audio has managed to combine a mildly retro aesthetic with some thoroughly modern engineering to create a speaker that both sounds great and will never be mistaken for any other speaker out there."

- < i>techradar.com, July 11, 2024

Five Stars – What Hi-Fi? Magazine

"The Studio 89 have a good sense of rhythmic drive and the kind of surefooted timing that can’t help but get your feet tapping with appropriate music. We love their sense of cohesion and the seamless way the drive units integrate. Those hours spent fine-tuning the crossover have paid off."

- What Hi-Fi? magazine, July 1, 2024

Best Buy Award – the-ear.net

"All-in-all the Studio 89 is a modern-looking, modern-sounding loudspeaker package well worth considering. They are certainly a step-up from the original 1980s Studio models I remember which were, for me, far too much about the aesthetics at the expense of sound quality with the gold dome tweeters and gold alloy cones. Here’s to further Monitor Audio models taking their inspiration from Hyphn."

- Simon Lucas, the-ear.net, October 1, 2024

Applause Award – stereonet.com

"The Studio 89 sounds unerringly natural. Low-frequency presence is substantial but not muscle-bound; the leading edge of bass information is straight and crisp, so rhythms are expressed convincingly, and momentum never flags. It’s a subtle and detailed yet charming and engaging design that’s sure to seduce many prospective purchasers and is so well worth an audition."

- stereonet.com, July 1, 2024

Best Buy Award - avsforums.com

"Play to the Studio 89’s strengths though and the result is very special indeed. This is a speaker that can take music you know and love, deliver all the passion and emotion it possesses but combined with a realism, accuracy and sheer ‘in the room’ that warrants having the word ‘Studio’ in the name. It is unquestionably demanding; if this is how Monitor Audio sees this as a template for how all their future speakers behave, they might want to be careful, but it’s a fantastic addition to the choices available at the price point. Its demanding nature means that the Studio 89 cannot be seen as a true Best in Class but the sheer brilliance of the performance it is capable of with a little care means it has to be seen as a Best Buy."

- Ed Selley, avsforums.com, January 18, 2025

Highly Recommended Award - hometheaterreview.com

"I can honestly say the performance of the Studio 89's is what impressed me the most. I've listened to quite a few different speakers with small drivers, and they never had the same heft in the low end, articulacy in the bass and mids, nor the ability to get loud enough to give the neighbors a reason to come knocking on my door."

"Another area where the Studio 89's really shine is the ability to sound great even at lower volumes. I've had some speakers in the past where once the volume was turned down, so was the level of detail in the original recording. Those speakers almost require an optimal volume just to get a proper presentation of what the original producer intended."

- Andrew Burns, hometheaterreview.com, September 26, 2024

"Monitor Audio’s smallest Studio‑series model delivers reference‑grade balance, imaging, and scale far beyond its modest dimensions—so long as you treat it like the serious loudspeaker it is."

"The Studio  89s produced a volume of unstrained, undistorted sound wholly out of scale with their diminutive size. Powered with 150W each, they delivered both orchestral and big‑band sound at not‑quite‑but‑close‑enough‑to‑live levels without any sign of discord."

- Daniel Kumin, soundandvision.com, May 2, 2025