Monitor Audio’s Ten-Year Plan for Hi-Fi—With Michael Johnson

This week, host Jorden Guth is joined by Michael Johnson, Global Marketing Director for Monitor Audio Group, to discuss the Monitor Audio Experience Centre, creating gateways to audiophilia, and the company’s ten-year roadmap. They also explore whether vinyl represents hi-fi’s past or future, the role active speakers might play at Monitor Audio, and why video games could be an important way to introduce a new generation to better sound.

Sources:

“Monitor Audio: From Concept 50 to Hyphn and Beyond” on the SoundStage! Audiophile Podcast: https://www.soundstage.life/e/monitor-audio-from-concept-50-to-hyphn-and-beyond-into-hi-fi-making-monitor-audio-speakers-the-response/

Chapters: 00:00:00 Announcement 00:00:36 Introductions 00:02:32 The Experience Centre 00:07:46 Sound and the tech that creates it 00:11:19 Conveying experiences 00:15:25 A gateway to hi-fi? 00:19:44 The ten-year roadmap 00:21:53 Is vinyl the past or the future? 00:28:39 What about active speakers? 00:36:12 Audio for video games 00:41:23 Outro music: “Let the Road Begin” by Ziv Moran