We listen to glue.
“I know exactly what goes into this,”
says Daniel Emonts.
He’s the man behind Contour’s drivers.
“I know all the materials and everything. But there’s magic behind it too, when you hear the result.”
Daniel should know. In Dynaudio Labs, our R&D department, they listen to everything. Everything. Even glue.
“We decided to change the glue between the voice-coil and the cone. We thought it would take two or three
months, but we ended up taking a year measuring, recording and listening,” he says. “I think 80 percent of us
could tell the difference between the glues. And now that’s going to be part of our R&D procedure. Listening to
glue.”
We all listen. That’s how we make our speakers. Sure, we measure stuff; we have to. But the computers are just
tools: There’s so much more going on than just a frequency curve.
Contour has new drivers. The only one we aren’t changing is the Esotar2 tweeter, which you can find on all our
high-end speakers, and which – no matter how old it gets – is still tough to follow. New drivers means new
crossovers, which means new cabinets, which means every component affects every other component, which
means… listening.
We make everything for the performance – not for the data. So, what do our speaker sound like? Nothing. They
don’t have a “sound”. All you hear is the truth.
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