Dynaudio has announced four new products. Specifications and pricing not yet released.
Contour 20 Black Edition: Think of a Confidence 20 in a Contour 20 cabinet. Aka Confidence 10? Contour 20 BE will feature Esotar 3, upgraded crossover and tweaks to the woofer. Estimated price: 8.500€.
Contour Legacy: The Heritage Special gets bigger and better with 2x woofers. Limited to 1000 copies. Estimated price closer to 14.000€.
The Bookshelf: A standalone product, limited production, but not a limited edition. The unique cabinet will be a homage to Japanese wood and craftsmanship. It will feature components similar to Confidence 20. No guess on pricing but I would assume more than 13.000€.
The Confidence 20A: an amplified version of Confidence 20 in a white cabinet using electronics from their Core line, not the Focus line. No guess on pricing but I would assume more than 13.000€.
The Press Release is on Dynaudio’s website. More tidbits of information can be found by Googling.
If only it was that simple. The best way to describe it when you meet someone for the first time and think they have a weird kookie face somehow but you can’t put a finger on which feature seems wrong.
I like silver things with VU meters. I don’t like that Bow Technologies amp though. It seems too much trying to ride the wave of something as opposed to some other brands that have those things baked into their DNA.
The SA 5300 has a balanced symmetry within each isolated side. The Bow doesn’t. I can sort of look at the Pioneer and fathom the designer’s (more like engineer’s) thought process. With the Bow I haven’t a clue.
These boxes with multiple switches and dials and meters remind me of my “hifi” of old which I’d much rather forget. And we mostly control our hifi with a tablet these days, don’t we? Perhaps have a volume control, a source switch and a headphone socket but otherwise give me a minimalist aesthetic over excessive bling any day. It was one reason I switched over to Meridian many years ago.
I do wonder if simple designs ask a lot more of the designer, though. But get it right and I think it helps to sell a product as Apple surely knows.
The accessibility point, has been made a few times on here. Not that app control necessarily implies poor accessibility, but physical controls can certainly help some interact with their hifi gear more easily.
I happen to love the brushed metal, toggles and meters look, but unashamedly as they remind me of my parents Sony hifi when I was growing up!
I’d still love a good technics. When I was for the first time seduced by a shop and trapped in the arms of a dealer he explained Naim to me as the opposite of Technics (technics was the standard in my family).
21 hours ago,.Swedish Marten finished loading the car to travel to Munich.
