Scansonic MB6 B
With its slim seven-driver array, the Scansonic MB6 B marries weighty, agile bass to a remarkably open, precise soundstage. HiFi News admired its vitality, impact and refined clarity, while Paul Sechi found its ribbon treble smooth, airy and free of glare. This is a poised, full-range floorstander with serious musical scale.
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Sound Quality
95/100
Build Quality
94/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
Expansive, precisely focused soundstage with convincing ambience, image placement and natural decay.
Deep yet controlled bass delivers tight drum slam, strong weight and dynamic drive from a slim cabinet.
Ribbon tweeter combines speed and air with smoothness, avoiding glare or excessive forwardness.
Excellent driver integration produces a transparent, cohesive and musically unforced presentation.
Cons
Bass balance requires careful placement, with HiFi News recommending positioning closer to room corners than expected.
Needs capable, high-current amplification to fully come alive.
A premium-priced loudspeaker, making it a substantial investment.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 95/100
Reviews describe a full-bandwidth, highly cohesive presentation that combines strong low-frequency weight with a transparent midband, refined ribbon treble and unusually convincing spatial information. It remains composed and engaging from low-level listening to high-volume, rhythmically demanding music, although careful placement and capable amplification are important.
Bass
95/100
StereoNET found bass weight and extension that belied the slim cabinet and small individual drivers, with clearly defined basslines and tight, well-weighted drum slam. HiFi News similarly heard increased low-end punch, weight and attack, though it advises taking care with positioning to get the best balance.
Mid
94/100
StereoNET describes the midband as transparent, fast and neutral in both tone and presence, without becoming excessively forward at different levels. HiFi News also praises the apparently seamless driver integration, realistic instrumental proportions and clear vocal diction.
Treble
94/100
The ribbon tweeter is repeatedly praised for being fast, airy, delicate and smooth, delivering precision without glare or strain. HiFi News calls the presentation explicit yet sweet, while StereoNET found violins clear and quick but never forced.
Soundstage Imaging
95/100
StereoNET heard a broad stage with highly accurate placement, instruments and voices appearing to hang freely in space. HiFi News reinforces this with praise for broad, deep focus, clearly resolved individual voices, convincing ambience and natural decay into the recorded acoustic.
Dynamics
95/100
Both reviews found the MB6 B lively and convincing with dynamic material: StereoNET reports excellent timing, snappy percussion and composure at higher levels. HiFi News highlights punchy drums, real impact, and the ability to rock with drive and slam.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
94/100
StereoNET praises the stylish tapered cabinet, superb finish and low-noise enclosure, finding that it avoids adding audible coloration. The review material also describes substantial engineering in the curved, braced cabinet and the specially developed carbon-cone drivers, though there is little discussion of long-term durability.
Value for Money
85/100
At £8,999, StereoNET rightly frames the MB6 B as a serious luxury purchase with correspondingly high expectations, while HiFi News lists the same price. Neither review directly compares it with rival speakers at the price, but both deliver strongly positive verdicts on its musical performance and finish.
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Specifications
- Size, mm (BxHxD)
- 178 x 1410 x 410
- Weight, kg per unit
- 35
- Freq. response
- 27 Hz – 40 KHz
- Impedance
- > 4 ohm
- Sensitivity
- 90 db
- Crossover
- 250 Hz + 2600 Hz / Minimum phase
- Enclosure
- Curved, heavily braced, ventilated box design with adjustable aluminum feet
- Drive units
- 1 x Ribbon tweeter · 2 x 5,25″ Midrange · 4 x 5,25″ Woofer
- Finishes
- Black-silk, White-silk or Walnut
- Amplification
- We recommend high quality amplifiers >50W
Manufacturer's Description — Scansonic
The MB6 B is the Scansonic flagship speaker. Tall, slim and elegantly curved it follows the core of traditions in Danish loudspeaker design. The design is centered around the ultra light moving mass sealed ribbon tweeter, that has unique speed, resolution and dynamic transient capability. This makes for a very transparent and highly detailed reproduction of the finest details in the program material.
The MB6 B boasts a powerful lineup of 6 x 5,25” carbon coned dynamic drivers, arranged in a power sharing line array.
The inner pair of the driver covers the midrange up to where the tweeter takes over and as you move out from the center the driver cowers more and more of the lower registries.
In the deepest bass the line array boast a total membrane area larger than a 12” driver, but still with the speed and agility of the smaller drivers. This makes the MB6 B have outstanding capabilities even in the deepest bass.
The MB6 B is an incredible music performer with an impact an authority the will leave you breathless.
Fabric grillfronts can be supplied as an additional accessory.
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