Win sE Munro Egg 150 Worth Over £2,000

Deadline: 11/03/2012

In the many decades that studio monitors have been around, we've come to expect them to look a certain way, the vast majority of them being built into cuboid cabinets. This is mostly a matter of convenience (cuboid things are generally fairly easy to build), but mic specialists sE Electronics went back to the drawing board to produce these unique monitors.

Designed with the help of world-renowned acoustician Andy Munro, the sE Munro Egg 150s are so called because of their ovoid shape. The benefits of such a form are twofold: edge diffraction is massively reduced when drivers are mounted in rounded baffles, rather than straight-edged ones, and the shape of an egg inherently has few major internal resonances, compared with cuboids.

These speakers were apparently in development for over two years, during which time sE and Andy Munro figured out such crucial details as what to make the cabinet from, how thick it should be, the placement of internal bracing, and so on.

It's not just their shape that sets the Eggs apart from the competition, however. Despite being active speakers, their amplifiers are housed in a separate unit, which also incorporates some monitor-control facilities. There's source-select switching, plus separate level controls for the main and auxiliary inputs (for level-matching when comparing your own mix to a commercial track, for example).

The control unit also has an EQ switch, with soft, hard and 'normal' mid-range modes. Soft and hard modes lower and raise the speakers' mid-range output, respectively, while 'normal' leaves their response flat.

In our review of the Munro Egg 150s last month, we said they "deliver a remarkably high standard of sound quality", praising their "fast and tight" bass and their "open and spacious" high end. Good news, then, for the winner of this month's competition! If you'd like to win this innovative, high-performance monitoring system, you'll have to answer the questions below. The answers aren't all straightforward, however: you may want to refer back to our review, which you can read online at www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan12/articles/seegg150.htm.

To enter online, you need to be registered with and logged into the SOS site, then choose the answers and complete the tie-breaker. Your contact details are automatically added, using the information stored in your MySOS account contact details (so keep them up-to-date or we might not be able to get in touch should you win). The deadline for entries is 11th March 2012.

the small print

1. Only one entry per person is permitted.
2. Employees of SOS Publications Group, sE Electronics, and their immediate families are ineligible for entry.
3. No cash alternative is available in lieu of the stated prize.
4. The competition organisers reserve the right to change the specification of the prize offered.
5. The judges' decision is final and legally binding, and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. No other correspondence is to be included with competition entries.
7. Please ensure that you give your DAYTIME telephone number on your entry form.
8. Prize winners must be prepared to make themselves available in the event that the competition organisers wish to make a personal presentation.

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