Hello everyone I wanted to upgrade my Mordaunt Short MS-309 sub because I wanted a fast sub that was effortless and without the horrible class D amplifier and heavy metal cone woofer.
After perusing the web for a British built sub (less shipping costs/better service) etc I decided on a BK electric Monolith forward firing unit but I wanted a substantial upgrade over the MS so I got the custom version with a 500 watt MOSFET panel amp as used in REL and M&J subs with an Eminence LAB-12 12 inch woofer in light oak.
I realise that this is an over the top subwoofer for a bedroom - it has no bed because it's another living room upstairs used for hi-fi.
From what I can gather the 300 watt version of the Monolith is not that far behind a £2500 REL subwoofer and the "breathed-on" BK with bigger amp and better drive unit should be mega - it's on order and Tom at BK electric was very helpful and answered all my questions over the phone.The sub is huge and heavy at 110 lbs so it will be a 2 man lift.The Monolith is very well built out of 1 inch MDF and is critically braced with a beautiful rounded cabinet with matched real wood veneers; the equivalent build quality would cost thousands and be half the weight and probably made in China.I will review it here in a couple of weeks.
I was assured that the twelve inch woofer is bomb-proof and with a massive double magnet and light paper cone so will be responsive and fast compared to a metal woofer.The model down is measured at -3 db at 15hz and over a 100 decibels so this beast should be fantastic.The woofer alone weighs more than 22 lbs or 10kg.
I only watch films on the PC (I've got a 24" full HD monitor and Acoustic Energy Aego-M, Tannoy SFX centre with decent cable and separate good quality sound and graphics card and a separate preamplifier for switching and phones for the PC) and I don't watch my 28" Toshiba or 32" 100hz Panasonic Widescreen CRT for months at a time.I don't like the telly on much.
I prefer music and have a Sugden A21a integrated amplifier, Sugden Audition CD player upgraded to CD21 class A output spec with a Traxdata 900 cd recorder, Technics RS-AZ7 3-head cassette, Sony WMD6 Professional Walkman cassette, Musical Fidelity X-Cans headphone amplifier, Sennheiser HD-600 headphones, Linn Axis - Basik - K9 turntable, arm, MM cartridge on an Apollo Aria 5-tier rack.
Speakers are SD Acoustics OBS 3-way dipoles with Volt bass, Dynaudio midrange and top of the range Scanspeak tweeters with solid silver wired computer designed crossovers (tri-amp/tri-wired) from Wilmslow Audio and are heavily braced and customised.
Interconnects and speaker leads are QED, Cambridge Audio and Linn and the tuner is a DAB/FM shoebox Onkyo CR-505 DAB CD receiver.The remaining speakers are Mordaunt Short MS-902 and Mordaunt Short MS-302 on two foot high, heavy Partington speaker stands.
I do realise that I need to upgrade most of my kit as it's so old and friends tell me to get a big AV receiver with loads of speakers and a big thin new tv but I don't need them as I mostly listen to music.
After perusing the web for a British built sub (less shipping costs/better service) etc I decided on a BK electric Monolith forward firing unit but I wanted a substantial upgrade over the MS so I got the custom version with a 500 watt MOSFET panel amp as used in REL and M&J subs with an Eminence LAB-12 12 inch woofer in light oak.
I realise that this is an over the top subwoofer for a bedroom - it has no bed because it's another living room upstairs used for hi-fi.
From what I can gather the 300 watt version of the Monolith is not that far behind a £2500 REL subwoofer and the "breathed-on" BK with bigger amp and better drive unit should be mega - it's on order and Tom at BK electric was very helpful and answered all my questions over the phone.The sub is huge and heavy at 110 lbs so it will be a 2 man lift.The Monolith is very well built out of 1 inch MDF and is critically braced with a beautiful rounded cabinet with matched real wood veneers; the equivalent build quality would cost thousands and be half the weight and probably made in China.I will review it here in a couple of weeks.
I was assured that the twelve inch woofer is bomb-proof and with a massive double magnet and light paper cone so will be responsive and fast compared to a metal woofer.The model down is measured at -3 db at 15hz and over a 100 decibels so this beast should be fantastic.The woofer alone weighs more than 22 lbs or 10kg.
I only watch films on the PC (I've got a 24" full HD monitor and Acoustic Energy Aego-M, Tannoy SFX centre with decent cable and separate good quality sound and graphics card and a separate preamplifier for switching and phones for the PC) and I don't watch my 28" Toshiba or 32" 100hz Panasonic Widescreen CRT for months at a time.I don't like the telly on much.
I prefer music and have a Sugden A21a integrated amplifier, Sugden Audition CD player upgraded to CD21 class A output spec with a Traxdata 900 cd recorder, Technics RS-AZ7 3-head cassette, Sony WMD6 Professional Walkman cassette, Musical Fidelity X-Cans headphone amplifier, Sennheiser HD-600 headphones, Linn Axis - Basik - K9 turntable, arm, MM cartridge on an Apollo Aria 5-tier rack.
Speakers are SD Acoustics OBS 3-way dipoles with Volt bass, Dynaudio midrange and top of the range Scanspeak tweeters with solid silver wired computer designed crossovers (tri-amp/tri-wired) from Wilmslow Audio and are heavily braced and customised.
Interconnects and speaker leads are QED, Cambridge Audio and Linn and the tuner is a DAB/FM shoebox Onkyo CR-505 DAB CD receiver.The remaining speakers are Mordaunt Short MS-902 and Mordaunt Short MS-302 on two foot high, heavy Partington speaker stands.
I do realise that I need to upgrade most of my kit as it's so old and friends tell me to get a big AV receiver with loads of speakers and a big thin new tv but I don't need them as I mostly listen to music.
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