Monitor Audio Hyphn
Monitor Audio Hyphn marries point-source coherence with lightning-fast bass, yielding vast, sharply focused imaging and startling vocal insight. HiFi News praises its warmth, definition and effortless scale, while hi-fi+ highlights its lucid staging and exceptional dynamic composure. This is an unapologetically engineered flagship for listeners who want forensic resolution without sacrificing musical flow.
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Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
97/100
Build Quality
96/100
Value for Money
88/100
Pros
Exceptionally coherent, seamless presentation with expansive, crisply focused imaging.
Deep, powerful bass combines unusually fast attack with tight control and fine detail.
Highly revealing yet natural midrange gives voices intimacy, articulation and convincing timbre.
Huge dynamic headroom remains composed and detailed from quiet passages to high listening levels.
Cons
Needs substantial, high-current amplification to reach its full potential, particularly at elevated levels.
At 107kg per speaker, installation requires a robust floor and careful handling.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 97/100
Reviewers consistently describe an unusually coherent, transparent and musically expressive flagship presentation. The Hyphn combines huge scale, exceptionally controlled low frequencies, vivid vocal insight and a vast, precisely organised soundstage without losing refinement or warmth.
Bass
97/100
The low end is repeatedly praised as deep, powerful and exceptionally fast, with remarkable attack definition, texture and composure. Reviewers found it capable of visceral, room-filling impact while remaining tightly controlled and free of obvious cabinet coloration; StereoNET notes that outright mass is less extravagant than the largest monster speakers, but calls the bass tight, tuneful and deeply extended.
Mid
97/100
Vocal and instrumental reproduction is a major strength, described as open, intimate, articulate and exceptionally revealing of timbre and technique. Hi-fi+ found the Hyphn extraordinarily eloquent with voices, while HiFi News praised its focused insight and freedom from hardening as levels rise.
Treble
95/100
The MPD III treble is widely heard as crisp, controlled, detailed and tonally convincing, with sweet, atmospheric air rather than glare. Fidelity Magazine did find the top end initially muffled and undefined straight from the box, and reported that the speaker changes substantially during its early running-in period.
Soundstage Imaging
97/100
Reviewers repeatedly describe a large, sharply focused stage that extends well beyond the cabinets and gives individual sounds secure, believable positions. Images are said to float freely in space, with notably convincing front-to-back depth, silence between performers and an ability for the speakers to disappear.
Dynamics
97/100
The Hyphn is praised for combining explosive macro-dynamic force with excellent low-level resolution and subtle harmonic shading. It remains composed at very high volumes, handles demanding orchestral and electronic material without strain, and is described as fast, hard-hitting and highly engaging rather than merely analytical.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
96/100
The hand-finished mineral-and-acrylic-stone cabinets are consistently described as exceptionally rigid, inert and seamlessly executed. Reviews also highlight substantial bracing, integrated port structures, decoupled crossover sections, force-cancelling woofer layout and robust machined outrigger feet; the 107kg weight reflects the formidable construction but makes installation a serious undertaking.
Value for Money
88/100
At around £70,000 per pair, the Hyphn is unmistakably a costly specialist purchase, and reviewers do not downplay that fact. However, hi-fi+ and TED Publications both consider it competitively priced beside similarly ambitious high-end alternatives, while StereoNET calls it an essential audition for buyers shopping for an ultimate loudspeaker.
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Specifications
- Sensitivity (2.83Vrms @ 1m)
- 86 dB
- Recommended Amplifier Power (RMS into 4 Ohm, Music Signal)
- 200 - 1,600W
- Continuous Power Handling (RMS into Nominal Impedance, Pink Noise with 6dB Crest Factor)
- 800 W
- Nominal Impedance
- 4 Ohm
- Minimum Impedance (20 Hz to 20 kHz)
- 3.5 Ohm @ 2.2 kHz
- Drive Unit Complement
- 4 x 8" RDT III Bass Driver 6 x 2" RDT III Midrange Driver 1 x MPD III Tweeter
- Frequency Response (In-room, -6dB)
- 18 Hz - 60 kHz
- Maximum Peak SPL (single speaker @1m Z-Weighted)
- 129 dB
- System Format
- 3-Way
- Bass Alignment
- Bass Reflex
- Port Tuning Frequency
- 25 Hz
- Crossover Frequencies
- 350 Hz, 3.7 kHz
- External Dimensions (Inc. plinth) (H x W x D)
- 1392 x 502 x 520 mm (54 13/16 x 19 3/4 x 20 1/2")
- Weight (Inc. plinth, ex. packaging)
- 106.9 kg (235 lbs 10.7 oz)
- Warranty
- 5 years
Manufacturer's Description — Monitor Audio
Unique in shape, unparalleled in performance, Hyphn is the result of an intense collaboration between our designers and engineers, who set out to build the best loudspeaker anyone has ever heard.
Featuring the new M-Array high- and mid-frequency driver array and four force-cancelled 8” bass drivers per speaker, Hyphn is capable of delivering an unrivalled listening experience.
Features at a glance:
Three-way design | Unique M-Array configuration | Four force-cancelled 8” RDT III Bass Drivers | Six 2" RDT III Midrange Drivers | MPD III transducer | Engineered crossovers
The Shape of Genius.
Hyphn is unlike anything Monitor Audio, or anyone else, has ever created. A statement of a flagship loudspeaker, conceived and engineered upon an R&D philosophy of maintaining a balance between design and technology, that we call our Transparent Design Philosophy.
Revolutionising what is achievable for high-end home audio, Hyphn features the 3rd generation, Micro Pleated Diaphragm (MPD III) high frequency transducer at the centre of the M-Array. A breakthrough in high- and mid-frequency transducer technology, it provides an acoustic and physical link to the twin bass cabinets that sit either side of it, and contain four force-cancelled 8” bass drivers, capable of delivering impressive levels of tight, impactful bass.
The result of five decades of knowledge and innovation, Hyphn delivers a dramatically enhanced listening experience, with a visually striking presence.
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