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We started with the high-resolution version of the Led Zeppelin III remaster from 2014. The distributor included high quality stands valued at more than $800, including the plate to which the speakers may be bolted, though we used our own stands for this review.

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Grilles are available, but even in this ‘cheaper’ walnut finish the Contour 20s are handsome indeed without them, in perhaps a masculine way, with the drivers set against the black baffles, wrapping slightly around the front edges to meet the walnut. We carefully unpacked the speakers from the extremely heavy foam of their packaging - foam rubber with a density we’ve never seen before - and put them on our stands. We reviewed the ‘entry-level’ Walnut finish model with a satin look (pictured above) and it was immaculately finished. No biwiring or biamping capability is provided here, just one pair of very sturdy speaker terminals on each loudspeaker.There are a number of finishes available,and the price depends on which you choose. Using an active crossover is a different matter, but very few speakers accommodate such arrangements without surgery.Īpparently Dynaudio agrees with us.

Nor have weĭYNAUDIO CONTOUR 20been impressed with bi-amping as conventionally practised. We doubt that running three octaves of frequencies down one wire and seven down the other sounds very different from running all ten octaves down the one wire. We generally have not been enormously impressed with the concept of biwiring loud-speakers. You’d have to be nuts to spend $7.5k on a pair of speakers without buying amplification of equivalent quality.Dynaudio rates their frequency response at 39 to 23,000Hz at the -3dB points, and their power handling at an impressive 180W (necessary given their low sensitivity). Clearly, these are not loudspeakers intended for use with second-rate electronics. Furthermore their nominal impedance is four ohms. That’s no different here, with Dynaudio rating the Contour 20s at 86dB (2.83V input, one metre). We have noticed over the years that Dynaudio speakers tend to be of lower sensitivity than the average high fidelity loudspeaker. Inside these very solid enclosures are a 180mm bass midrange and a 28mm soft-dome tweeter - both of Dynaudio’s own manufacture, electrically separated at 2200Hz by a second-order crossover. The enclosures curve back gently on the sides to a narrower rear, where the bass reflex port and connecting terminals are sited. And get this, they each weigh 15.5kg, which is heavier than many floorstanding speakers. These are indeed bigger than bookshelf-sized speakers, though nowhere near floorstander size at 440mm tall, not to mention the 360mm depthĪnd the 215mm width. Here we’re looking at a pair of semi-compact speakers from its extremely high-quality Contour range, the Contour 20 speakers.

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This is a company that makes its own drivers, and has become so well established as a quality loudspeaker maker that the products of its professional division are used as monitors in recording studios across the world. We’ve been listening to them, reviewing them, for close on 20 years. Dynaudio, the Danish loudspeaker maker, has been around since 1977.

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