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Manger C1 Studio Monitors Hello, up for sale are the only known pair in Oz. These amazing speakers are hand made in Germany. They currently retail for $30K. The Manger C1 powered reference monitors with pneumatic stands are height adjustable. These speakers have a unique driver design which projects the sound directly out with no push pull lag of a traditional speaker. It actually allows you to hear if the original recording was up to standard. Both Transducers have had the Voice coils & centre dampers replaced by Manger in Germany costing 680Euros/$1121AUD. There are Blemishes & scratches as
Timing-wise, this is a current, still-supported active design, so you’re not looking at an obsolete relic. New pairs sit around the equivalent of roughly AUD A$28,000–A$30,000, and used listings overseas often fall in the AUD A$11,000–A$14,000 region depending on age and condition. At A$7,700, this is clearly on the low side of typical used pricing for a working pair and, assuming no hidden issues, looks like a genuinely strong buy rather than just “fair.”
The appeal here is that you’re getting Manger’s wideband driver and time-coherent presentation in a compact active package that can genuinely serve as both mastering-grade monitor and high-end home speaker. They excel at imaging, transient fidelity, and low-level detail, and you avoid the amp-matching rabbit hole entirely. If condition checks out (no amp noise, no driver trauma, quiet fans if present) and they’re a local sale, this is the kind of listing I’d move on quickly.
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Manger is a German hi-fi brand founded by Josef Manger in the late 1960s, with its first patent application dated 1968 and the company now based in Mellrichstadt, Bavaria. The brand’s heritage is built around Manger’s long-running work on its own proprietary sound transducer, developed to solve a simple but ambitious problem: making reproduced music sound more natural and lifelike.
Manger is known almost entirely for loudspeakers and speaker systems rather than for a broad electronics catalogue. Its current lineup centers on high-end floorstanding and standmount models, available in both passive and active versions, all built around the company’s distinctive bending-wave transducer. The brand also has a history of reference use in studios and serious listening rooms, which reinforces its identity as a specialist speaker maker rather than a full-range audio company.
In the market, Manger sits firmly in the high-end niche. It is a boutique German manufacturer with a strong engineering identity, premium pricing, and a reputation for precision, natural tonal character, and meticulous build quality. This is not a mass-market brand; it appeals to knowledgeable audiophiles who value unconventional driver technology, handcrafted construction, and a very specific sonic philosophy.
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