We are proud of our work
We are proud of our work. Ask anyone here and you’ll get the same answer.
Allan Kristiansen is one of the most expensive people at Dynaudio. He’s been with us for 27 years – and during
that time he’s said “No” hundreds of times.
Every time Allan says “No”, it costs us money. That’s because it means a speaker cabinet has to go for another
round of lacquering and polishing (which takes three weeks to finish). Or that a piece of cabling isn’t mounted
properly. Perhaps a missing screw. Allan sees everything.
But we don’t mind.
We don’t mind because every time Allan says “Yes”, it means something perfect has left our factory.
“The key is not doing it in a hurry,” he says. “Don’t hurry. Make it correctly the first time.” We make the Contour in-
house, you see. It’s made in Denmark because external assembly plants might not have an Allan. From the
furniture-grade cabinets (which go through 11 stages of lacquering and polishing before we set them free), to the
drivers (which are made from magnesium silicate polymer – a material we developed ourselves), to testing,
packaging and assembling up to 400 parts, it’s all done at our headquarters in Skanderborg, Denmark.
We do everything in Denmark because that’s how we’ve always done it since we started in 1977. Our founders
knew the only way to produce a truly great loudspeaker was to oversee every part of the design and production
themselves.
So, we developed our own driver technology – including our acclaimed coated soft-dome tweeters. We worked in
secret (we were a bit mysterious 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.
We are proud of our work
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