Our Quest? Realism and sound-stage, by total impulse-precision, over the full audio spectrum, with bass power - at a sensible price.
It took eleven years of research to achieve the required absolute leading-edge impulse synchronism - for holographic high-fidelity sound.
With their combination of realism, sound-stage accuracy, and power, these high fidelity loudspeakers have achieved that quest.
All MonoPulse hi-fi loudspeakers are craftsman made in the UK to each customer’s order, and are offered in a uniquely wide range of colours.
We have a specialist market where over half of our customers have been involved with music in some way - and most of the rest seem to be engineers.
For a technical explanation of the MonoPulse principles, click on The Quest
Three models, the Audiophile A - the Slim S - and the Compact C.
The Model A - Audiophile. (right)
Our flagship will handle 550 watts, with bass to below 20 Hz.
23cm wide and 110cm high.
£3,445. E3,995 in Euro area.
Has just had a re-stying and a further upgrade to the bass.
The Model S - Slim. (centre)
Slim and elegant. "Other speakers sound blurred and hazy by comparison." (What Hi-Fi)
18cm wide and 92cm high.
£1,995. E2,445 in Euro area.
Has just had a major upgrade.
The Model C - Compact. (left)
A little gem of a standmount, with full MonoPulse performance.
18cm wide and 48cm high.
£1,145. E1,445 in Euro area.
All new.
Click on the tabs at the top of the page to see more details.
We also supply surround-sound and home cinema systems. The front units can be Models A, S or C, and the centre and wall units are based on the Model C. Any colour combinations are possible.
We have just supplied a seven speaker cinema system to a Mr D T of Northumberland, via our dealer Audio Elevation. His reaction was, "The clarity of sound is astounding. The transformation of our home cinema system has been seismic. Real depth and detail to both music and film soundtrack."
There is a choice of ten cloth colours and six steel colours – plus our new brushed bare-steel finish. The colours have been designer selected to blend with other equipment or room furnishing. We can send sample swatches to help with your choice.
For the steel tops - six metallic gloss colours, plus a new bare-steel finish.
Bright Metallic Silver, Metallic Gunmetal or Metallic Black.
These metallic gloss paint colours can match other equipment.
They
blend well with our Slate or Black cloths.
Metallic Bronze, Metallic Sand or Metallic Burgundy.
These colours are often selected to match room or furniture colours. They blend with our Dark Chocolate, Biscuit or Champagne cloths.
The Metallic Burgundy
can be a dramatic contrast, or blend with the Burgundy cloth.
The new Brushed Bare-Metal finish - shown above right with Champagne cloth.
The quarter-inch rolled-steel is brush finished and lacquered. It shows the solid reality of the rolled steel tops - and reveals the varying patina of the rolling-mill.
The first customer to receive one, in Spain, immediately e-mailed "I couldn't resist unpacking one to have a look. They are lekker, you have done a fine job at interpreting what I was looking for visually."
The cloth colours.
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Black — An intense black with a slight sparkle. Black cloth with Metallic Black or Gunmetal steels are popular choices. |
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Cranberry — For speakers with a difference. For a small extra charge we can do the steel surrounds in White if you pick this one. |
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Slate Grey — This popular and neutral colour looks serious and conventional with Metallic Black steels or, combined with Gunmetal steel, looks great with other equipment. |
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Electric Blue — A dramatic choice, which can go with contemporary furnishing, for loudspeakers with a difference. |
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French Blue — A cool and subdued tone, which looks very modern with Gunmetal steels. Great if there is blue-hue furnishing or equipment around. |
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Champagne — In rooms with light-coloured furnishing, this cloth, with Sand steels, allows even a full performance large speaker to blend in. |
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Burgundy — A vibrant and rich colour which is a good match with Black, Bronze, or Gunmetal steels in a room with red hues. |
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Bottle Green — Combined with Bronze steels, looks like it belongs in a stately home. It doesn't even look like a loudspeaker. |
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Biscuit — Blends in well with traditional furnishing. A popular choice to go with Sand or Bronze steels. |
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Dark Chocolate — A rich dark brown which looks particularly good with Metallic Bronze steel or Metallic Black steel. |
On surround-sound sets, any combination of colours can be chosen. Some outline of the speakers will be visible through the lighter colours, the most so with Champagne.
Certain higher specification components are used for humidity tolerance, power surge resistance, insect exclusion, and superior impact tolerance.
Reviews.Over ten years now, MonoPulse hi-fi loudspeakers have been listened to by the UK's most respected reviewers.
They have created more than thirty-five published reviews and comments on the Models A and S.
What continually sets us apart, is the praise for realism - the objective of the original quest - started twenty-one years ago.
To see some quotes click here or the full list and texts click reviews
We have to admit that, for more than a year now, we have been too busy to submit any units for review. So the Model C (shown right in Slate cloth and Metallic Black steel) which is all new, has not yet had reviews.
General features, and options available on all models.
Terminal panels are bi-wireable, or bi-ampable, and can accept 7mm spade connectors, 4mm plugs, or 5mm wire. They have all-soldered internal connections.
Crossover components are to the highest specifications, using heavy-duty air-spaced inductors and film capacitors.
External surfaces can be re sprayed or re covered for repair or colour change.
Colours. In addition to the ten standard colours, we can sometimes obtain other colours to special order.
Specials. Because we only make to order, we can often supply special requirements. For example, shown above, is a connection panel from a source specified by the customer, fitted at the very base of the enclosure.
We can also make acoustic specials with modified bass or treble, including adjustable treble.
Spikes can also be supplied in hard nylon, more suited to hardwood floors, as a no-cost option, as can extra long spikes to give stability and clearance on deep carpets.
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Buying MonoPulse loudspeakers in the UK:
We have hi-fi speaker dealers covering Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Kent, Hampshire, West Midlands, East Sussex, Cheshire, Scotland, Cornwall, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire, and Outer and Central London.
They are located in Central London, Wolverhampton, Edinburgh, Cheadle, Southampton, Doncaster, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Kingston, Rainham, Lewes, Penzance, Boreham Wood and Salisbury.
They also cover adjoining UK locations. Click here for the full list and details. You can contact us directly on 07785 558238 or click on info@monopulse.co.uk
In some circumstances we can supply directly in the UK. More info here. Contact us as above.
Here is the reaction of engineer Mike Smith who purchased a pair of Model As unauditioned.
"allan what can i say the speakers are amazing its been worth the wait thank you once again allan"
Buying outside the UK.
With the exception of Sweden, outside the UK we sell directly to customers at discounted prices. For details click here.
Or contact us directly on + 44 7785 558238, or e-mial to info@monopulse.co.uk
A lot of Norwegians have purchased directly - for some of their reactions click below. There are many pages of it. http://www.hifisentralen.no/forum/index.php?topic=22789.0
There are more on www.avforum.no
The Model C is on http://avforum.no/forum/hvilket-utstyr-har-avforums-medlemmer/113890-her-ditt-liv-la-casa-supertramp-monopulse-heaven-5.html#post1712775
We have so many favourable comments from Norway that it would be impossible to add them to the site. This is the latest, dated November 2011, comment from Ian Christiansen, who ordered a pair of Model S speakers.
Hi Allan,
I would just like to thank you for both excellent speakers and outstanding service. It has been a pleasure buying speakers from you.
I have now tuned the placement of the speakers a little and they now play sub bass and middle bass like champions. I am very pleased with all sides of the sound from the speakers.
Micro dynamics are excellent, speed and timing is fantastic and they have excellent midrange on voices. And now the bass is outstanding too. A very complete speaker in my opinion. A perfect speaker for me that likes the speed and timing so much. I am very pleased with the result and it is so much fun that I have started to play old records we have not listened to in years.
The speakers have already surprised me many times on records I thought could be difficult, but they have played everything extremely well and with authority that modest sized speakers normally should not possess. So this renewed interest for listening is very good and we often play some records after the kids are in bed in stead of the usual zapping the channels of the TV all evening. I have put some pictures and a short review on the MonoPulse friends thread on hifisentralen.no so I hope my positive review will contribute to give you some more Norwegian customers.
Best regards, Ian
The link to the web site of our dealer, near Stockholm, in Sweden is www.daredaudio.se
Their e-mail link is: info@daredaudio.se
Or for more details click here
Some background to the creation of MonoPulse.
Having built his first loudspeakers at the age of twelve, MonoPulse designer, Allan Hendry then went on to a degree in Electronic Engineering at King’s College, London.
A career, though mainly in aerospace, also included projects in secure communication systems, cryptography, covert diving systems, cryogenics, and space breathing equipment. He became a board member of a FTSE 100 company, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
For how all this gave him the idea of the MonoPulse design click here
And in all the travelling, clocking up a million air-miles, he also wrote the thriller he would have wanted on one of those flights. Click on Seeds of Destruction to find out more about that.
Return to the topThe Model A speaker at its second Best Buy award from the prestigious Hi-Fi Choice.
"remarkably impressive coherence, especially through the voice band, which seems to be MonoPulse's particular stock in trade.
This in turn helps to sharpen the image focus and precision, more accurately and convincingly defining the position of a performer in space." "The large main driver helps deliver fine performance through the bass and midband, with good overall balance and ultimate bass extension."
"Best of all is dynamic expression, which is comfortably ahead of the pack and further enhanced by the superior timing and across-the-band time coherence."
"Superb voice coherence. 25Hz bass extension."
The MonoPulse Model S loudspeaker was given the top five star rating by What Hi-Fi.
"Extraordinary powers of timing and resolution;.. In terms of timing alone the Ss are almost ridiculously good. Music is delivered with a sublime rhythmic precision, a shapely sense of phase and beat that makes other loudspeakers sound blurred and hazy by comparison"
"The S's vibrancy, accuracy and and rhythmic presence is extraordinary enough to warrant five stars on its own. The Ss do one thing well - like Jimi Hendrix did one thing well. They do that one thing so staggeringly well that you could spend years enjoying that one talent."
The Model A speaker immediately received a Best Buy award from the prestigious Hi-Fi Choice.
"MonoPulse uses the phrase 'transient synchronism', and that's as good as any to describe the crispness and clarity with which individual instruments are defined."
"Timing is truly exceptional."
"Its music-making is hugely involving and entertaining. And that, after all, is what it's all about."
The MonoPulse Model A received a fantastic review in Issue 42 of Hi-Fi +.
“sheer vividness of their music making … the shock of reality … a fine partner for low powered valve amps … remarkable immediacy of performance ... the sheer speed and integrity."
"Does bring a crispness and a very welcome dose of realism by preserving good leading edge integrity."
"Dynamics somehow seem to sound punchier and more believable. Superb transient integrity with very little to criticise elsewhere in the performance. Makes listening to any source unusually easy and interesting."
"Plenty of deep bass extension. Imaging is impressive, giving notably precise soundstage focus."
"Music sounds beautifully coherent, so that one is rarely conscious of any intrusion of the speakers themselves, while the brain focuses instead on the subtlety of the music making process."
"A genuine audiophile product at a very realistic price.”
Keith Howard, Technical Editor of the prestigious Hi-Fi News, about the Model S speaker
"if you're looking for a speaker to take you directly to the core of the music, few rival this revamped MonoPulse at the price ... its rare ability to cut through to the heart of a musical performance is something that many listeners are certain to treasure."
Hi-fi News independent measurement also conformed a top-end frequency response through to 29.5 kHz.
The first MonoPulse Model S top five star rating by What Hi-Fi.
"They time superbly, and can deliver a complex rhythm track such as Gorillaz's Dirty Harry in as surefooted a manner as any speaker at this price."
"Detail is impressive and dynamics vivid. Great for the money –
Paul Messenger, probably the UK's foremost loudspeaker reviewer, about the Model S.
Keith Howard, consultant Technical Editor for the prestigious Hi-Fi News, about the Model S.
Look at all the Model S reviews »
David Alcock, specialist top-end stereo speaker reviewer, about the Model A.
The ability of these speakers to capture the subtle nuances and inflections in vocal performances is outstanding. High frequencies were richly detailed, ensuring that instruments buried way down in the mix, are clearly discernable as individual instruments and are never allowed to dissolve into a high frequency hash as is so often heard on lower cost speaker designs. Allan Hendry has identified a key component of delivering realistic sound. Outstanding speed and imaging at the price."Look at all the Model A reviews »
For a full listing of all media comments and reviews click click on here
