Dynaudio Contour 60i

Dynaudio Contour 60i - Uncompromising high-end speaker

If you have a larger listening room or just like to play it loud, the Contour 60i is your new best friend. The Contour 60i sounds bigger than you'd think. And it's not just because it's a grown-up, full-size 3-way floorstanding speaker. Of course, it is capable of playing so thunderously loud that it will annoy any neighbor, but it also sounds big in other ways. Here it is able to deliver everything from the floating soundscape of a top orchestral recording to the explosive surround effects in the biggest blockbuster movies. Whatever you offer the Contour 60i, it will fill the room with good sound without resorting to "boom bass" along the way.

Key features of Contour 60i

• New Esotar 2i tweeter
  Featuring a larger rear chamber and now the Hexis inner dome, which helps to reduce unwanted resonances and flatten the frequency response
• New spider
  New asymmetric spider for increased system symmetry – and this one is made from aramid fibers for improved acoustic response
• New crossover
  Extensive tweaks from the 2016 Contour model have led to a simpler, cleaner, and even better-performing unit
• Voice coil
  Large diameter, long throw aluminum voice-coils

Starting at the top - The Esotar 2i tweeter

You'll find the crown jewel in the top of our speaker: the Esotar 2i tweeter. We looked at the older Esotar 2 from the 2016 Contour, took it apart and realized we could give it a boost with some tech from our flagship Confidence range (the Hexis) and also our flagship Core professional reference monitor series (the larger rear chamber) . Together these clever mods help to reduce unwanted resonances and smooth out the frequency response for even clearer treble performance.

Contour 60i is the only model in the family to have a dedicated midrange driver. It uses an aluminum voice-coil, and also has a neodymium magnet system – all developed and optimized at the Dynaudio Labs in Denmark. It is, in fact, exactly the same midrange driver we used in the 2016 Contour 60. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Where the difference lies is in how it's mounted

We've used more tech from Core here, isolating it in a precision-moulded cup containing resonance-defeating ribs. If there's one thing you can never have too much of, it's midrange clarity – and Contour 60i now has even more.

The two woofers are updated. Each has a bigger magnet system, a different voice-coil design and a glass-fibre voice-coil former, as first used in the Confidence range and Sub 6 subwoofer. That means even tighter bass, at higher volume. We've chosen copper for these ones over aluminium. Why? Because they're dedicated bass drivers. Copper is heavier and provides more moving mass. More moving mass lets us dig deeper without impinging on the midrange, handled by the super-sprightly driver just above.

The crossover has been updated, too. You can't change all the drivers without taking a look at the speaker's 'brain', after all. Plus, the effect of that molded midrange cup and the Nomex woofer spiders let our engineers shift the crossover frequency up. It now works better at slightly higher frequencies (up to around 300Hz). The frequency curve in this area is also flatter, meaning better midrange performance from a simpler design.

The multi-layer curved cabinet and sleek-but-solid aluminum baffle provide your music (which was likely mixed using Dynaudio studio speakers, too) with a robust, defined acoustic foundation. So much so that, if we've done our jobs right, you'll forget they're even there and just ... listen.