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THE NEW MONITOR AUDIO PLATINUM IN-WALL II

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The Platinum In-Wall II model offers flagship build
quality and performance with super-discreet style.

Perfect for custom home theatre projects where lifelike scale and dynamics are demanded,the Platinum In-Wall II will generate the seamless tonal integrity of the finest boxed systems from a stealthy in-wall location.

Due to the proliferation of multi-channel home cinema sound formats, custom installers are turning to architectural solutions as a way to reduce the impact of multiple speakers on space and room design. Although this is an aesthetically desirable goal, the sound quality is quite often compromised. Monitor Audio offers a more advantageous solution with the quality and performance of its latest flagship Platinum II Hi-Fi speakers for discreet in-wall applications. The innovative new Platinum In-Wall II design offers integrators a no-compromise option combining the audiophile accuracy, bandwidth and dynamics of its free-standing counterparts with the luxury of flush-with-the-surface installation.

The Platinum In-Wall II is a three-way reference architectural speaker system, perfect for custom home theater projects where lifelike scale and dynamics are demanded. Equipped with an adjustable mid/high frequency driver array, the In-Wall is able to deliver pin-point audio imaging and consistency from both vertical or horizontal positions. By rotating the array though 90 degrees at the center of an LCR configuration for instance, a soundstage of three Platinum In-Wall IIs will generate the seamless tonal integrity of the finest boxed systems from a stealthy in-wall location.

In keeping with the rigour of Platinum II design, the In-Wall‘s cabinet is as free of mechanical resonance as possible. Its heavily damped and cross-braced composite structure of steel back plate and 25 mm (1 inch) MDF joins a front baffle made of Anti-Resonance Composite™ (ARC) material, designed to provide an optimally rigid and stable foundation for the state-of-the-art Platinum II drivers.

Twin 6.5″ RDT® II bass drivers are positioned astride a center pairing of Platinum II‘s Micro Pleated Diaphragm (MPD) High Frequency Air Motion Ribbon Transducer and 4 inches RDT II mid-range driver. The MPD transducer has a surface area around eight times that of a conventional dome, allowing for much greater efficiency and lower distortion. Bonded to the diaphragm’s surface, the driver coil takes the form of a conductive track, which is extremely light and able to reproduce low-level nuances with higher definition. In tandem with lower native distortion, the absence of diaphragm break-up modes ensures that high frequencies are accurate and faithful to the original recording.

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Precision-engineered to partner the tweeter’s impressive fidelity, the mid-range driver uses an innovative RDT II (Rigid Diaphragm Technology generation II) cone, comprising ultra-thin skins of C-CAM and woven carbon-fibre, bonded to a honeycomb Nomex® core. Developed specifically for Platinum II, this extraordinarily light and rigid structure lowers distortion by a further 8 dB above 300 Hz, making it the lowest distortion cone technology in Monitor Audio’s history.

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The In-Wall‘s lightning-fast RDT II mid-driver dovetails with its MPD tweeter in a damped and sealed enclosure to generate a naturally lucid and expressive sonic quality from 300 Hz to over 100 kHz. Below 300 Hz, dual, dished, 6.5 inches RDT II bass drivers, optimized for sealed box operation, are designed for high excursions with extremely low signal distortion. Their ‘underhung’, thermally-optimized motor assembly ensures that a cooler coil remains in the gap even when driven hard, for high efficiency, low power compression and greater accuracy.

As part of the exacting Platinum II design regimen, the crossovers have been refined using the finest hand-picked metallised polypropylene film capacitors and air-core inductors in the shortest signal path for maximum signal transfer and power handling.

A ‘stealthy’ matt-black baffle allows the Platinum In-Wall II to be used behind a screen in a blacked-out custom theater setting. Alternatively its ultra-slim flat mesh grille can be painted to match room décor. Invisible magnetic grille fixings provide a neat and easy way to fix and remove the grilles during installation or servicing. The In-Wall has been designed for simple retro-fit installation through Monitor Audio‘s easy and secure Tri-Grip™ dog leg fixings. Additional room-tuning is available through baffle-mounted mid and high frequency level controls (+ 1 / 0 / -1 dB).

The new Platinum In-Wall II is a true wide-bandwidth speaker system optimized for in-wall applications and capable of accurate audio reproduction from 52 Hz to 100 KHz for the ultimate in discreet high performance multi-channel sound.

For more information, please visit: www.monitoraudio.ca

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