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Dynaudio Contour

We are proud

of our work.

Ask anyone here

and you'll get the

same answer.

Allan Kristiansen is one of the most

We make the Contour in-house, you see.

expensive people at Dynaudio. He's

It's made in Denmark because external

been with us for 27 years – and during

assembly plants might not have an Allan.

that time he's said "No" hundreds of

From the furniture-grade cabinets (which

times.

go through 11 stages of lacquering

and polishing before we set them free),

Every time Allan says "No", it costs

to the drivers (which are made from

us money. That's because it means a

magnesium silicate polymer – a material

speaker cabinet has to go for another

we developed ourselves), to testing,

round of lacquering and polishing (which

packaging and assembling up to 400

takes three weeks to finish). Or that a

parts, it's all done at our headquarters in

piece of cabling isn't mounted properly.

Skanderborg, Denmark.

Perhaps a missing screw. Allan sees

everything.

We do everything in Denmark because

that's how we've always done it since

But we don't mind.

we started in 1977. Our founders knew

the only way to produce a truly great

We don't mind because every time Allan

loudspeaker was to oversee every part of

says "Yes", it means something perfect

the design and production themselves.

has left our factory.

So, we developed our own driver

"The key is not doing it in a hurry," he

technology – including our acclaimed

says. "Don't hurry. Make it correctly the

coated soft-dome tweeters. We worked

first time."

in secret (we were a bit mysterious

We are proud of our work

back then) and developed our own

manufacturing and testing methods.

And we made thousands of prototypes.

We did it so that the only things that

leave our factory are perfect, honest,

handcrafted speakers. Every time.

"We are proud of our work," Allan says.

"Ask anyone here and you'll get the

same answer. What we're producing

here is going to go in someone's house;

someone's car. They might have saved

for several years, sometimes, to get it.

So we all know it has to be perfect –

when we say Dynaudio is 'proud and

pure', that's true. That's absolutely true."

We hope you love listening to our

speakers as much as we loved making

them for you.