M&K Sound S300 Speaker
The S300 delivers cinema-scale dynamics and pinpoint imaging, placing dialogue, effects and music in a convincingly lifelike, cohesive field. Home Theater Review praised its natural vocal reproduction and accurate staging, while hifitest.de highlighted its low-distortion authority and enveloping home-theater presentation. Its substantial sealed cabinet makes it a formidable reference monitor when partnered with a capable subwoofer.
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Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
90/100
Build Quality
95/100
Value for Money
88/100
Pros
Exceptionally precise imaging and realistic vocal placement create an immersive, cohesive soundstage.
Handles explosive movie effects and demanding musical passages with composed, lifelike dynamics.
Double-walled, damped cabinet construction is exceptionally substantial and engineered to minimize resonance.
Cons
Limited low-frequency extension means a high-quality subwoofer is needed for full lower-octave weight.
The heavy, deep cabinets need sturdy stands and are not well suited to ordinary shelving.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 90/100
Reviewers describe an exceptionally convincing home-theater monitor: balanced, lifelike and capable of placing voices, effects and performers with unusual precision. Its principal limitation is low-bass reach; the sealed S300 is intended to partner a capable subwoofer for the lowest octaves.
Bass
82/100
The S300's specified low-frequency reach is limited to around 60Hz, and Home Theater Review says a high-quality subwoofer is needed to reproduce the lower octaves fully. With a subwoofer added, the reviewer heard a fuller and richer foundation, but the monitor itself is not presented as a full-range bass solution.
Mid
94/100
Vocal realism is a major strength. Home Theater Review found voices strikingly natural and vividly placed, while hifitest.de noted that dialogue remained crystal clear even amid demanding action scenes.
Treble
91/100
Direct commentary on ultimate treble air and extension is limited, but the available evidence is very strong. Reviewers praise lifelike accuracy, fine detail resolution and freedom from distortion, with no reports of glare, harshness or strain.
Soundstage Imaging
95/100
Spatial presentation is repeatedly singled out as exceptional. Reviewers heard performers locked into correct positions, convincing reproduction of a church's large acoustic space, and a cohesive, enveloping soundfield in which the individual loudspeakers effectively disappear.
Dynamics
93/100
The S300 system is described as handling both subtle musical information and explosive film moments with authority while remaining composed. Hifitest.de also highlights high power handling, strong dynamic capability and crisp, precise delivery.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
95/100
The cabinet construction is unusually substantial, using double MDF walls with a damping layer intended to suppress vibration and resonance. Both reviews point to serious monitor-grade engineering, and hifitest.de calls the matte-black cabinet finishing impeccable.
Value for Money
88/100
The asking price was not supplied, and hifitest.de acknowledges that the S300 package is not inexpensive. Even so, that reviewer considers it a long-term investment and a class leader among reference home-theater alternatives, supporting the premium as justified for buyers seeking this level of cinema performance.
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Specifications
- Impedance
- 4 ohm
- Recommended Amplifier Power
- 25-500W
- Frequency-repsonse
- 60 Hz – 22KHz +/- 3dB
- Sensitivity
- 93 dB, 2.83V1m
- Dimensions HxWxD
- 15,5×13,4×13,0” / 395 x 340 x 330 mm
- Weight
- 40.0 lbs / 18.2 kg
- Finish
- Black satin
Manufacturer's Description — M&K Sound
Destined to become the reference home entertainment speaker system, the S300 offers transparency and neutrality that surpasses far larger, more costly systems. More compact than any speaker capable of rendering such clarity and pinpoint detail, the ultra-smooth S300 ensures unsurpassed, effortless realism even in very large rooms.
While a dedicated left/right mirror-image pair provides optimal imaging for two- channel sources, the use of an identical third speaker for center channel duties guarantees a seamless, consistent sound field in all dimensions.
The S300 is the ultimate demonstration of our dedication to innovation and quality.
A Match Made in Audio Heaven
From the very beginning, M&K Sound has been the only speaker company to produce satellite and subwoofer systems exclusively, the optimum configuration for film and music with deep bass isolated in its own enclosure so that it cannot interfere with the upper frequency range.
Combined with M&K Sound X Series subwoofers, the S300 Series possesses the transparency, speed and resolution that let the most critical audio professionals hear exactly what’s going on in the mix and allow them to listen for hours on end with no hint of fatigue. M&K Sound’s seamless, integrated feel from top to bottom immerses you in sound with exceptional handling of dynamic changes in pace and volume.
Your final choice of X Series subwoofer model will naturally depend on many factors including design, room size, preferred listening levels, musical and cinematic tastes and, of course, exactly how dedicated you are to the quest for ultimate audio realism.
S300 Monitor
The iconic front baffle layout of the famed S150 monitor with its triple-tweeter array alongside dual woofers is also an integral aspect of the design and performance of the S300.
The S300 Series introduces specially designed separate tweeter and woofer mounting brackets for exceptional mechanical isolation from the cabinet and a tight connection between the die-cast, custom made brackets and the front baffle.
All drivers are rear mounted to the brackets and the brackets are rear-mounted to the baffle for an elegant front with no unsightly screws and no reflective edges near the drivers. This effectively eliminates a major source of colorations in more conventional, less conscientiously designed loudspeakers.
S300T Tripole®
M&K Sound invented the tripole speaker configuration to do what no conventional monopole loudspeaker can do. The installation of side and/or rear mounted S300T’s enhances the solidity and pin-point placement of rear channel events such as fly-overs, voices, effects, music etc., as well as the realism of the ambient soundfi eld.
The S300T tripole with integral wall-mount bracket, employs the same front drivers and crossover technology as the S300, for a perfect acoustic match. Independent, isolated side chambers house two 4” drivers per side for optimal surround coverage that rivals the huge array of speakers required in movie theaters.
MP300 On-Wall Monitor
Recognizing a growing demand for a high level of audio performance from an unobtrusive, decorator-friendly enclosure, M&K Sound offers a shallower, wall-mount version of the S300.
By significally reducing the cabinet depth and revising the overall dimensions, M&K Sound has created a discrete on-wall monitor that retains the audio quality of a full-size compact loudspeaker. By optimizing crossover and utilizing the effect of wall mounting the MP300 is a true member of the S300 family.
The modest dimensions and extended placement options of the MPS300 will appeal to the style-conscious music/movie lover.
The S300 Craftmanship – Styling with a Purpose
The iconic front baffle layout of the famed S150 monitor with its triple-tweeter
array alongside dual woofers is also an integral aspect of the design and performance of the S300.
The S300 Series introduces specially designed separate tweeter and woofer mounting brackets for exceptional mechanical isolation from the cabinet and a tight connection between the die-cast, custom made brackets and the front baffle.
All drivers are rear mounted to the brackets and the brackets are rear-mounted to the baffl e for an elegant front with no unsightly screws and no refl ective edges near the drivers. This effectively eliminates a major source of colorations in more conventional, less conscientiously designed loudspeakers.
Innovative Driver Mounting
The S300 Series introduces a specially designed tweeter array mounting flange with integrated waveguide.
Rear-mounting the three tweeters to the rigid cast aluminium
flange provides exceptional mechanical isolation from the cabinet.
The solid steel woofer mounting bracket ensures a tightly sealed connection to the inside of the front baffle.
Cabinet
The S300 Series employs a complex, box-inside-a-box construction with a non-resonant layer of tar joining the two cabinets to provide constrained layer damping.
The S300 Series cabinet construction and specially designed drive units lower the mechanical noise floor drastically, bringing music and movies to life with effortless realism, building on a rock-solid foundation.
Made in Denmark
During recent years, sound has reached new dimensions. New audio formats, high definition sound combined with the requirements of our critical professional users, have led us to the allnew state of the art S300 Series.
The S300 Series is built to perfection and in order to ensure our unique high level of quality, we have decided to have the whole range designed, developed, built and tested in Denmark.
The system has been thoroughly analyzed and calibrated by M&K Sound engineers to reach new and higher levels for tonal accuracy and musicality.
In order to deliver the highest quality of accurate sound reproduction and at the same time play significantly louder, the S300 Series is designed with cutting-edge driver units developed and custom-built in cooperation with the Danish acoustic pioneers from Scan-Speak.
Scan-Speak has a forty-year history of groundbreaking
innovation and multiple patents for breakthroughs in every aspect of driver design. The S300 Series utilize Scan-Speak drivers to achieve extreme power linearity and ultimate sound quality for control, performance, reliability and continuity.
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