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Dynaudio Contour

How do you

design a new legend?

Experiments, arguments,

tests, more experiments,

designs, prototypes ...

You can't reinvent the wheel. But you

Then there's the time when Malte

can change the spokes. In redesigning

Köhn, Lead Product Designer on the

the Contour range, we changed a lot of

Contour, rocked up to a meeting with

spokes.

armfuls of sketches (you can see some

of them here). "I tried to work with

We worked hard to retain the original's

non-traditional colour and material

DNA; its character. But we also wanted

combinations," he says. "But I wanted

to provoke – so we gave our teams free

to keep the Contour's classic design,

rein to experiment with different materials,

which is quite edgy and brutal. We

different techniques and different designs.

turned it into something that's more

elegant and technical." Malte is really

That meant scaring ourselves a little

proud of his design – and he should be,

sometimes. Like when we did some

because that's the one we all chose as

A/B listening tests on small voice coils

a group.

compared with our signature large ones.

That's a big step. This time, it proved to

Michael Rohde Böwadt, our brave VP of

be a step too far – they just didn't sound

product management, was the one who

as good as the technology we've been

took the leash off. "We went very wide

using for years – but we didn't simply

in the beginning," he says. "I told them

discount the idea. We listened.

to just make the best drivers in the

world. The best cabinets in the world.

To approach it all in a different way."

No pressure, then.

"It backfired a bit! But it was also very

interesting. We got some very interesting

results, provoked a lot of discussions,

and were able to really zero in on what

we wanted to do next."

One of the things that came out of those

discussions was using different driver

materials. Ultimately we decided to stick

with our tried-and-true MSP – but we

told Daniel, Andreas and Danny that

we wanted it to sound even better.

Their Eureka! moment came when they

started varying the material's thickness

across the diaphragm, because it means

How we got there