I never realized that the black Speakers II had a monochrome Apple logo; which appears to be silver. Is this the first use of the monochrome Apple logo on a hardware product? (Other than molded plastic like on the bottom of those speakers, or screen-printed logos like on the keyboards.)

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I believe so, and the only one until the PowerMac G3 All-In-One which had both (unless you count the floppy drive for the PB 2400), the iMac being being the first to only have a monochrome logo. Looking through Kunkle's Apple Design, it is the only released product with an inlaid logo that is not the rainbow. Stamped integrated case logos don't count as they have been present since the Lisa. Likewise, the white, black or gray Apple that appeared on the regulatory labels does not count. There are a few products I cannot find pictures for, which may have had other logo variants. I know there was a QuickTime conferencing kit, which included a web-cam, but whether it was branded with an Apple Logo, I don't know. Mac Like Things produced a web-cam prototype that had a silk-screened gray logo on it, which could have appeared on some of these misc. products which came to market. But in terms of major products with monochrome primary logos, I would say this is it until the iMac.