Monitor Audio

Monitor Audio was founded in 1972 in Teversham near Cambridge, England, by Mo Iqbal. 

The company specialized strictly in high-performance bookshelf and floorstanding loudspeakers.

Monitor Audio pioneered metal dome driver technology, transitioning away from paper and fabric domes to rigid gold-anodized alloy dome tweeters.

Between 1970 and 1995, Monitor Audio earned prestige for speaker manufacturing. Early successes included the MA4 floorstander and MA7 bookshelf speaker. In 1985, Monitor Audio released the R852/MD, their first speaker using an in-house metal dome tweeter, followed by the Studio 10 and Studio 20 high-end series featuring C-CAM (Ceramic-Coated Aluminium/Magnesium) drivers.,Monitor Audio was among the earliest pioneers of metal-dome drivers famously creating gold-anodized alloy dome tweeters (Gold Dome).