SPEAKERS WITH CONFIDENCE… THE LATEST RANGE FROM DYNAUDIO
/Here at Audio T, we’re proud to say we now have Confidence! Well, to be honest we’ve always had confidence in our ability to provide great service and bring you some of the best sounding equipment in the industry, but now we can stick our chest out with pride and declare that the Confidence Range from Dynaudio will blow you away… Read on…
DYNAUDIO CONFIDENCE 20
Firstly, we’ll take a look at the Dynaudio Confidence 20. Finished in a stylish modern smoke grey, paired with their bespoke floor stands in a matching colour scheme. There is an elegance to their design that defies convention.
The Confidence 20 features a two-way reflex port design which utilises a downward firing system that is cleverly controlled by the dome shaped plinth on the top plate of the stand. Although they are the smallest speaker in the range, they are in no way small sounding, providing a huge soundstage. There is no doubt that performance would be optimised when paired with equipment of a matching or higher quality. To put this theory to the test, we paired them with Naim, Chord Electronics and Linn, brands that we particularly favour here in Manchester. We were not left disappointed and found excellent results every time.
As they have a minimum 5 Ohm load and a sensitivity of 87dB/w, they can be driven by any good amplifier of similar quality to an optimal level.
These speakers incorporate the latest Esotar 3 28mm silk dome tweeter, which has improved dispersion due to the new Dynaudio resonance stabilising Hexis inner dome technology.
The Hexis inner dome has replaced the felt ring design Dynaudio used to favour behind the tweeter diaphragm. The new design maximises control over resonant frequencies, whilst at the same time smoothing out the speaker’s high frequency response.
This is paired with the new 18cm NeoTec msp woofer, which as you’d come to expect from Dynaudio features a vented voice coil and utilises a neodymium rare earth magnet, (as does the tweeter). These have greater magnetism than conventional magnets and are also far smaller and lighter, giving the speaker a higher performance.
Designed in Dynaudios Jupiter lab, absolutely nothing has been left to chance with the new Confidence range. This amazing facility allows Dynaudio to simulate all sorts of different scenarios from real world domestic settings to unnervingly absorbent properties of an anechoic chamber. This allows them to achieve their trademark sound as quickly as possible and with more accuracy than ever before.
Performance wise, they have a refined high frequency response with controlled and authoritative bass. Having switched over to them from the much larger Contour 60i, the amount of low frequency produced from such a small cabinet is astounding. With a soundstage as high as it is wide the Confidence 20 will fill your room with detail in all three dimensions.
With a range of musical tastes from punk to jazz and folk to drum and bass all present within the store, we were able to put the Confidence 20s through their paces in every conceivable way, loud, quiet, fast, slow, clean and dirty. They impressed at every turn.
Play a simple recording of just voice and piano, such as the Citizen of Glass album by Agnes Obel, and the confidence allow the emotion of the voice to flow through them, somehow effortlessly placed above the perfectly ringing strings of the piano.
At the other end of the spectrum, they take nothing away from the ferocity of Zach De Le Rochas vocal on Rage Against the Machine’s Sleep Now In The Fire, while still portraying the huge riffs behind him.
Both the Dynaudio Confidence 20 and Confidence 50 are on demonstration in our Manchester store.
Munir, Dave, James, Mike and Haden - Audio T Manchester
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