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Consequence Ultimate Edition embodies unparalleled musicality. Only an authentic loudspeaker specialist like Dynaudio, with over 35 years of experience and a complete understanding of music reproduction at the highest level of quality, could fully realize a loudspeaker of this class through its own development and manufacturing – truly creating the Consequence Ultimate Edition.

The basis of this definitive loudspeaker concept dates back to 1984. The original Dynaudio Consequence model had been decades ahead of the prevalent loudspeaker technology at the time. It set new performance benchmarks in music reproduction by addressing critical issues such as phase and time-domain coherence, driver propagation and dispersion, and the effects of resonance.

A wide range of dynamic bandwidth at the highest level of sonic neutrality and the lowest possible distortion, even at higher volume levels, is essential for the authentic reproduction of music. The Consequence Ultimate Edition features a sophisticated, extremely solid cabinet construction along with the innovative, bass-reflex supported Compound System, which eliminates the adverse effects of resonance.

Consequence Ultimate Edition

Complete your home theatre set-up in style with the Emit M15 C. This ultra-compact centre-channel is the ideal complement to your multichannel system.

It’s been said that up to 80% of the movie-watching experience is down to its sound. And when you’re watching a movie using a surround-sound system, most of it comes from the centre channel. We’ve made sure the M15C can live up to that kind of pressure. Two 11cm MSP drivers and a 28mm soft-dome tweeter handle the business end, while the angled centre base lets you position the speaker for optimal listening on a sofa. You can also put it flat on a low sideboard, or fix it to the wall with a special Dynaudio mounting bracket.

Emit M15 C

Center Platinum offers multichannel performance with total tonal consistency, making it the ideal complement for your Confidence-based home cinema system. Its design aims to immerse you fully into your viewing experience. The speaker features a dual Esotar2 tweeter and a 17cm mid/bass driver configuration, meticulously optimized for seamless integration into either a Confidence Platinum or Evidence Platinum system.

Constructed to produce minimal resonance, the Confidence Center Platinum’s cabinet ensures impeccable sound quality. The front baffle is engineered for optimal sound dispersion, and its twin tweeters are securely mounted on an aluminum plate to prevent any adverse effects on high-frequency output. This meticulous design is enhanced with an adjustable plinth allowing for precise speaker positioning. Additionally, there is a switch on the rear that adjusts dispersion to accommodate placement either above or below your display.

The speaker is available in several luxurious finishes, continuing the aesthetic standards set by the Evidence Platinum series. These finishes include:

- **Mocca**: Bird’s-eye maple real wood veneer, stained in dark brown and protected with clear piano lacquer
- **Bordeaux**: Bird’s-eye maple veneer, stained in dark red, also finished with clear piano lacquer
- **Rosewood**: A veneer of rosewood, stained in a rich, glowing dark red and finished with clear piano lacquer
- **Piano Black**: A classic, deep black piano lacquer finish

Each option provides a stunning visual complement to the audio performance, ensuring that the Confidence Center Platinum not only sounds exceptional but also enhances the visual aesthetics of your home cinema setup.

Center Platinum

C4 Platinum speakers redefine excellence in sound quality through state-of-the-art materials and evolved acoustic principles, elevating what it means to listen with confidence. These towering speakers, standing at 1.73 meters, are equipped with twin 28 cm Esotar2 tweeters coated with Dynaudio's proprietary precision material, ensuring crystal-clear trebles. The body also includes dual 15 cm midrange drivers and two 20 cm woofers crafted from Magnesium Silicate Polymer, a signature material of Dynaudio, known for its superior sound properties. The speakers’ ultra-lightweight aluminium voice-coils, non-magnetic Kapton formers, and high-quality internal wiring all converge into a finely tuned first-order crossover, enabling them to deliver incredibly deep, controlled bass along with smooth and detailed highs. 

Dynaudio’s Directivity Control (DDC) technology, developed from extensive experience in professional studio monitor construction, is a pivotal feature in the C4 Platinum. DDC aims to reduce the acoustic distortions and time delays caused by sound reflections off floors and ceilings. This technology involves a vertically symmetrical arrangement of drivers and a sophisticated crossover design to curtail the dispersal of sound energy to non-listening areas by up to 75%, enhancing the listener's experience irrespective of the room’s acoustics. Moreover, every part of the signal chain in these speakers is optimized to support DDC, ensuring that each tweeter and woofer complements the other in frequency response and phase relationship. The meticulous selection of crossover components and the matching of driver sets ensure seamless harmony and optimal performance.

The C4 Platinum is available in multiple luxurious finishes, enhancing its aesthetic appeal to match its auditory prowess. These include Mocca with a Bird’s-eye maple real wood veneer stained in dark brown and sealed with clear piano lacquer; Bordeaux, also in Bird’s-eye maple but with a dark red stain; Rosewood featuring a dark red-stained Rosewood veneer; and Piano Black with a deep black piano lacquer finish. These choices ensure that the visual elements of the speakers are as refined as their acoustic output.

C4 Platinum

A subwoofer serves to provide more to a system than simply adding deep bass. Incorporating a subwoofer to augment the low-frequency performance of any stereo or multi-channel loudspeaker system offers an additional benefit: by reducing the strain on the speakers in terms of reproducing extreme bass information, the overall quality of midrange frequencies and the soundstage reproduction in general are greatly improved. 

The High-Pass filter on the Sub 250 crossover enhances the general performance and imaging of the main speakers by reducing inter-modulation distortion. The SUB 250 model is the most compact sub-bass solution from Dynaudio. Utilizing its powerful 10" woofer in a sealed enclosure that measures less than a cubic metric foot, the Sub 250 delivers a very high level of performance in multi-channel or sub/sat applications where only a modest-sized subwoofer would fit.

Incorporating a 200 Watt amplifier, its back panel features a selectable gain setting, a variable Low-Pass Filter (50 Hz to 150 Hz), and a selectable phase switch (0º or 180º). There is one LFE RCA input and output, as well as an RCA SAT/SUB Input and an RCA SAT output. The SAT High-Pass Filter is also selectable (Flat, 60 Hz, or 80 Hz). The band-pass filtered inputs and outputs make it perfectly suited as a mate for any of the Dynaudio compact monitors in a high-quality sub/sat stereo system, where it would produce a purely audiophile-grade performance.

Sub 250

Accent 3

The Project

Producing small loudspeakers with extraordinary performance is a Dynaudio tradition. As early as 1984, Dynaudio created two compact loudspeaker systems which attracted favorable attention because of the innovative technology and performance capabilities offered. These systems became successful and contributed to the subsequent trend toward small, high-quality speakers. 

Speaker Driver Selection

The driver units we decided upon were refined and improved until they exceeded anything we had ever done. When we were sure of their laboratory excellence, we began again matching the drivers to the cabinet requirements. Making our own drivers we are able to interface driver and cabinet instead of dealing in the crossover with countless components.

Woofers

For the low-frequency range, we have used a special version of the 17 W 75. This woofer has a balanced 1:2 ratio between the diameter of the piston and the diameter of the voice coil. In this case, the large voice coil allows very high power handling, and, at higher frequencies, the outer surface of the diaphragm is decoupled acoustically from the inner surface, so the mass of the dispersing surface becomes smaller as the frequency rises. The result is well-balanced dispersion and phase response that makes accurate stereo imaging possible. Every Facette is built according to the principle of non-parallel surfaces: the cabinet panels' influence on sound is almost eliminated.

Tweeter

Recently Dynaudio introduced the Esotar 330 D high-frequency transducer. This unit was the culmination of many years of development, and it has been used in state-of-the-art systems from several manufacturers. This tweeter's capability was taken into account when developing the Special One. Among the many qualities of special usefulness were the excellent pulse response. This is a result of the resonance damping of the swinging system through the use of special magnetic fluid in the air gap. Every cabinet is created by a master craftsman; you'll never find a production line on our premises.

Soft Dome

The support material of the dome is made of fine mesh fabric. Before use, it is carefully impregnated with a special fluid to give the dome the necessary stability. After mounting the dome and the voice coil in the magnetic system, it is given an additional coating to provide balanced damping and eliminate resonances. Dynaudio has continued to develop the soft dome technology because we know that metal domes' resonances inherent in the crystal structure of the material cannot be avoided. These resonances affect the reproduction accuracy.

Crossover Filter

The Special One crossover is responsible for the distribution of the signals between the woofer and the tweeter. But it must also direct a whole series of modifications of the drive response combination. Large coil and premium polypropylene capacitors are required to carefully filter small rest ripples in the response. The reserves of these premium parts provide sonic stability and tonal balance on any musical material.

Capacitors

For the last several years Dynaudio has been testing for the best film capacitors. We now think we have a special formulation that is clearly better than all other types. By using these capacitors we have improved the high-frequency reproduction; the dynamic resolution is sharper, while tendencies toward "sharpness" in sound disappear.

Impedance

Before developing the actual filter, the impedance response of the drivers was smoothed with the help of exactly calculated circuits. This enhances the cooperation between amplifier and loudspeaker. Even the tweeter's impedance rise above 15 kHz is audible if the drive unit is precise enough to reproduce these frequencies accurately. Because we take so much care in creating a steady impedance response, the phase correction circuit can respond close to its theoretical potential.

First Order Filters

Dynaudio developments are largely based on the application of 6 dB, or first-order filters. Often, promotional literature gives the impression that the use of filters with a high slope, 12 to 24 dB per octave, is a quality feature of loudspeaker systems. This approach has some validity when using drivers of standard construction and a narrow frequency range. But the higher the slope of the filter, the worse the pulse response of the drive unit.

Phase

By means of carefully directed structural parameters, the phase response of Dynaudio drivers is optimized. The remaining difference around the overlap of the woofer and tweeter is balanced by a very sensitive compensation circuit. Long-term stability is also a significant factor in the overall design of the compensation circuit. Researchers and manufacturers have discounted the influence of phase on the sound of a loudspeaker system. But from the very beginning, Dynaudio has considered the phase response of a loudspeaker to be just as important as any other aspect.

Impedance Correction

Even if all of the aspects discussed above are carefully observed, the impedance response will still have ripples that can only be controlled by an impedance compensation network. When properly constructed, the impedance response between 100 Hz and 1,000,000 Hz is linear at 4 ohms. The connected amplifier is presented a nearly pure resistive load, allowing it to be operated under ideal conditions. 

Subjective And Objective Evaluation

Most audio enthusiasts have encountered components that share almost identical structure, design, and performance levels yet exhibit very different sonic properties. This is a phenomenon that we have often confronted in crossover design. In the design of the Special One, two different technical approaches were followed, and then each was refined for precise measurable fidelity to the original signal. For the first time ever, we used a PC board layout that had no conductor paths. All components are connected directly or with large cable diameters.

Inductors

Well-designed inductors with large wire diameters can often clearly improve response accuracy. During the design of the Special One, systematic tests with different coil formulations were conducted. We learned that "The thicker the wire, the better the results" was not always the case. We found that the Q (or quality) of the inductor influences the sonic results in the high-frequency range. Dynaudio developed coils with several conductors of different diameters in parallel, named CWC coils. Application of these coils makes precise bass reproduction with more dynamic range and less coloration possible.

The Result

The Special One sounds like no loudspeaker has in the past. It is unobtrusive but intense, allowing you to enjoy all music to its fullest potential. For those audio enthusiasts looking to improve the chain of high-fidelity reproduction, the Special One will stand up to a detailed evaluation. For those who love music, the Special One will be a joyful experience.

Dynaudio

Consequence Ultimate Edition

Emit M15 C

Center Platinum

C4 Platinum

Sub 250

Accent 3

17 W-75 EXT

17 W-LQ

D21/2

D-54 AF

20 W-75

Myrage

D28

D-54

17 M-75

D-76 AF

D-52 AF

15 W-75

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