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Owner's Manual Special Forty
We began in Skanderborg, Denmark. It's
analyzing it. It's just emotion," Wilfried
a small town by a lake; you'd like it, it's
says.
lovely.
That philosophy – that pursuit of truth
And because there isn't an awful lot
through emotion – permeates the entire
to do in Skanderborg, we turned our
company. There's always another level
attention to making the most honest
to hit. VP of Innovation Mark Thorup
speakers possible. That meant total
and Wilfried have been working side by
transparency: simply reproducing the
side for decades – and they still agree
music that was fed to them from the
on one thing: they're living their passion
original performance.
and making a business of it. "We're not
doing it because we must. We're doing it
The drivers available at the time just
because we can," says Mark.
weren't good enough, so we built our
own – but it wasn't just a test-the-water-
"I'm very proud that we kept all our
and-dive-in job. We did our homework.
principles from the beginning; we didn't
have to change anything. Most concepts
Dynaudio was always striving to reach
we started are still valid after 40 years,
the next level; a level its established
and I think this is very impressive,"
competitors – some of whom were
Wilfried says.
leviathans of the hi-fi industry – either
couldn't get to, or hadn't even realised
"When I think back, I can't understand
existed.
how I have been so brave! When we
started, I was only 22 years old, no
Our goal? To stop picking apart
experience, no background, just finished
frequencies and just... sit. Listen. Enjoy.
my studies – but I never had any doubt
that we would be successful. We never
"If a musician expresses what's in the
did anything just for the money. Ever. I
music, when you listen to it, you aren't
thought we might build a company with
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30, 40 people or so, but it went better
than I thought!"
It's always been this way, ever since
we started in one building in 1977, with
a handful of employees. Now we have
nearly 300... and they're all fussy. Just
as it should be. Our people are the key
to everything we do: they know exactly
how to create quality. They test, and
listen, and test, and refine, and listen.
They're experts. It means if something
isn't right, we can fix it – not just change
something else further down the line and
hope it solves the problem. We do it at
the beginning.
Magnets and wires and robots
The driver sits at the heart of it all. We
develop and manufacture them all
ourselves – right down to magnetising
the magnets and engineering the voice-
coils. Winding is an automated process
these days (although even the robots we
built can't escape the eagle eyes or ears
of our quality-control people), but at one
point even this was done by expert pairs
of hands.
"Whatever I do, I want to make a perfect thing. I talked to a lot of other
engineers at the time, and I could see how limited their understanding of
speaker technology was," says Wilfried. "So we did it ourselves."
That obsession with The Truth set us on the path to Right-ness.
We use aluminium wire instead of
There are other, less obvious details,
conventional copper. It's lighter, which
too. Some you won't even see – like
lets us double the coil diameter for any
the spider. That's the springy piece of
given weight. It also lets us use longer
material that acts as the voice-coil's
windings – which gives the driver longer
suspension. It's springy because it
excursion and better heat dissipation.
needs to control how much the voice-
(And that, in English, means we have
coil moves back and forth, and how
tighter control over the sound.)
much air there is behind the speaker
cone. We've improved its symmetry by
We develop our cones in house too, from
taking measurements and performing
our own version of a material called MSP.
simulations – which improves the sound
The whole thing is made in one piece –
you hear.
including the dust-cap – so there's no
need for glue. (Although our engineers
It all sits in the basket. That's the
can tell the difference between different
physical housing for the whole driver
glues just by listening; never let it be said
motor. The car around its engine (or, if
we don't know how to have a good time.)
you prefer, the Fort Knox around that
precious gold). It's just as important –
Building the motors
so even though you can't see it, we've
You might notice our cones are shallower
spent just as much time refining its
than those of our competitors. That isn't
design as we have every other part of
an accident, and it isn't just because we
our speakers. Ventilation is crucial: it's
want to be different. It's to improve our
made to reduce turbulence behind the
speakers' off-axis performance – so the
driver, which, again, helps them sound
sound you get off to the side is far closer
their best.
to what you hear out in front... perfect if
you have friends over and don't want to
High-quality high frequency
give up the good seat.
Then there's our signature soft-dome
tweeters. We don't let anyone else near
Made In Denmark
them (apart from our talented team, of
course). We've been refining our tweeter
designs ever since we started out:
geometry, shape, materials, stiffness...
even the coating. We use the right
amount, in the right places, at the right
density, to control roll-off and keep a
steady hand on the treble response.
Because they aren't made of metal, they
have a flatter, more linear frequency
response – and, we think, better sound.
But, in the end, it all comes down to our
people. They're fanatical about what
they do (you really should check out one
of our glue-listening sessions; they're
enlightening), and they're incredibly
proud of what they produce.
And, with our brand-new R&D facility
that opened at the end of 2016, they're
even more excited about what new stuff
they can come up with next...
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