Contour Owner’s manual
Hello Welcome to Dynaudio Contour. You’re going to love your new speakers… close your eyes and see.
This is Contour 6 8 9 10 14 16 17 18 18 19 19 21 21 21 22 23 23 24 25 25 26 27 28 30 Introduction Safety instructions About this guide How we got there Connecting Positioning General recommendations Distance to back and side walls Adapting the bass reflex port Floor-standing loudspeaker set-up Compact loudspeaker set-up Loudspeaker toe-in Room and furniture influence Grille Multi-channel set-up Loudspeakers for multi-channel set-ups Multi-channel loudspeaker set-up Running-in Running-in the loudspeakers P
Dynaudio Contour Introduction Introduction Every Dynaudio speaker is packed with advanced acoustic technology. We’ve spent decades on intense research and development programmes and upheld the highest standards of production quality – all so you can hear your favourite recordings exactly as their artists want you to experience them. We strive for nothing less than delivering the absolute truth in your music. Dynaudio is one of very few companies that can realize such loudspeaker concepts.
Safety instructions / About this guide Dynaudio Contour Safety instructions High sound pressure levels Listening to high sound pressure levels over a longer period of time may harm your hearing. To avoid hearing damage, do not listen to high sound levels over a longer period of time.
How we got there Dynaudio Contour How do you design a new legend? Experiments, arguments, tests, more experiments, designs, prototypes … You can’t reinvent the wheel. But you can change the spokes. In redesigning the Contour range, we changed a lot of spokes. We worked hard to retain the original’s DNA; its character. But we also wanted to provoke – so we gave our teams free rein to experiment with different materials, different techniques and different designs.
How we got there Dynaudio Contour the whole cone is optimised for the frequencies it’s been built to reproduce. And it works. gently curved cabinet edge, and its milled shape gives a modern feel to the Contour’s classic performance. Michael insisted on keeping the metal baffle. It’s part of the Contour’s design heritage, after all, and there are some incredibly good acoustic reasons for keeping it.
Connecting Dynaudio Contour Speakers R Fig. 1 - Binding posts at rear of cabinet (example). Connecting Fig. 2 - Amplifier loudspeaker outputs (example). 1. Connect a two-pole (+/-) loudspeaker cable to the binding posts, located at rear of the cabinet (see Fig. 1). The high quality, gold-plated binding posts can accommodate different connection systems: 4.0 mm banana plugs: The pins can be put directly into the binding post without any tightening necessary.
Positioning Dynaudio Contour A B B A≤B Fig. 3 - Positioning the loudspeakers. Positioning Dynaudio loudspeakers consist of classic bass reflex loudspeaker designs with no unusual or extraordinary positioning demands. Every room will still have its own particular sound characteristics. Any room is also shaped and decorated uniquely, and therefore remains independent regarding options for positioning loudspeakers.
Positioning Dynaudio Contour Spikes with sharp peaks The sharp peaks of the spikes may cause injuries and damage sensitive surfaces like hardwood flooring or tile. A ► Be careful when handling the loudspeakers. ► Place plates between the spikes and the surface to protect the underlying surface. B A, B ≥ 0.5 m A ≠B Fig. 4 - Distance to walls. Distance to back and side walls Every loudspeaker not only disperses sound energy directly into the room, but also to the side and even backwards.
Dynaudio Contour Positioning Loudspeaker toe-in Room and furniture influence Grille Depending on your personal listening environment and room dimensions, the loudspeakers may be angled in towards the listening area to focus sound radiation. This positioning will typically improve imaging and is especially recommended by Dynaudio (see Fig. 5). The sound quality of any loudspeaker is influenced by the furniture, wall materials and other objects in the listening room.
Dynaudio Contour 5 Multi-channel set-up 2 1 1 0° 30° 30° Loudspeakers for multi-channel set-ups 3 3 90° 90° 150° 4 150° 4 Fig. 6 5.1 and 7.1 multi-channel speaker set-up. Multi-channel set-up 22 Dynaudio loudspeakers are designed to offer the most advanced performance in both stereo and multi-channel applications. When connecting a loudspeaker to a multi-channel set-up, in general the same guidelines as mentioned in the previous section will apply.
Running-in Dynaudio Contour Running-in Running-in the loudspeakers Power rating The moving parts of a newly manufactured Dynaudio loudspeaker have been acoustically checked after production, but nevertheless are not as flexible as they need to be for optimum results to be realised. The higher the quality of any driver system, the more demanding the loudspeaker will be regarding time for running-in the system.
Care and maintenance / Warranty Dynaudio Contour Care and maintenance Dynaudio loudspeakers require no special treatment apart from the kind of careful handling you would normally apply to any high tech product in your home. Cleaning the loudspeakers ► Switch off all components of your ► ► Aggressive cleaning fluids All-in-one cleaning materials, aggressive cleaning fluids or special furniture polishes may damage the cabinet surface or other speaker parts.
We are proud of our work Dynaudio Contour 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.
We listen to glue Dynaudio Contour We listen to glue. 30 “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.
Contour Designed and engineered by Dynaudio Labs in Denmark Dynaudio A/S 8660 Skanderborg Denmark dynaudio.com Owner’s manual - Contour EN - Item no. 4554201E All text and image copyrights reserved. Subject to change without notice.
