Dynaudio Emit 20

Dynaudio Emit 20 - Hi-Fi starts with the Emit series

The Emit 20 is a high-performance compact speaker that utilizes technology from the Evoke, Contour i and Confidence series. It provides a fantastic combination of detail and dynamics for small to medium sized rooms. With the Emit 20, you get a first-class audiophile speaker that surprises for the price. It may be an "entry-level" model, but the Emit 20 is still packed with technology that you'll find in Dynaudio's other ranges - right up to the flagship Confidence and their Core professional reference monitors. Make no mistake - with the Emit 20 you will experience a performance you simply wouldn't expect at this level. The Emit series blows away most competitors when it comes to price and performance.

Emit 20 key features

• Designed and engineered in Denmark
  The entire Emit family has been put through its paces in our world-class Jupiter measuring facility at Dynaudio Labs. We treat it exactly the same as we do every other speaker in our range: no stone left unturned.
• Cerotar tweets
  Emit uses the highly regarded Cerotar tweeter from our Evoke series. It's a high-quality high-frequency driver inspired by our top-end Confidence and Heritage Special speakers, and includes the innovative resonance-defeating Hexis inner dome.
• Clean and simple
  Each speaker in the Emit range is designed to fit modern lifestyles and interiors. Clean lines, simple finishes and minimalist Scandinavian looks – whether you're listening in stereo or have a full multi-channel system.

Mid/bass power and control

Emit 20 uses an 18cm MSP (Magnesium Silicate Polymer) woofer, based on the one we've used in the Evoke series. MSP is a material we developed in-house, and have used for many years on our most renowned models. The cone itself is a one-piece design; the dust-cap is molded as part of the playing surface, which gives it a solid connection to the voice-coil that moves it back and forth. You'll hear that connection as supreme control and detail in the low and midrange frequencies.

The voice-coil itself is aluminium, wound onto a two-layer glass-fibre form. We've a long history of using aluminum wire in our voice-coils – and for good reason. It's light, so it doesn't impede fine movement, and we can get more windings on the former for a given length of wire. That means more 'BL', or magnetic power. More power means more punch. We've boosted that further, too, by coating the aluminum wire in copper.

Combined with the stacked ferrite magnet system and new surround, that gives Emit 20's long-throw mid/bass driver all the bass power you could want, even at high volumes, combined with amazing control over midrange frequencies (where instruments such as guitars, vocals and violins reside).

High-level tweeter performance

Emit 20 uses the Cerotar tweeter directly from Evoke. It's a 28mm soft-dome design that includes the ingenious Hexis inner-dome device.

The coated fabric dome delivers sweet-sounding high frequencies – all the openness and detail the artists want you to experience in their recordings – while the Hexis smoothes the frequency response and reduces unwanted resonance for surprising clarity.

Cerotar is powered by a powerful Ferrite+ strontium carbonate ceramic magnet system. It gives the tweeter all the power it needs to play loud without breakup while maintaining all the nuance you could want. Even at neighbor-bothering levels.

And because it uses technology from our top-of-the-range Core pro reference speakers (whose users need to listen intently for long periods), you won't get tired when you're in the middle of a long session.

Inside the crossover

The mid/bass driver and tweeter are marshalled by a custom-designed crossover from the same team who brought you Heritage Special and Core. Our engineers used a hybrid first- and second-order topology for the tweeter and woofer respectively, giving them exceptional control over each driver's behaviour. It means you'll hear what the artist wants you to hear, without compromise.

An impressive finish

Emit 20 comes in three custom-designed laminate finishes – Black, White and Walnut – that beautifully complement the cabinets' clean Scandinavian design (conceived in-house at our headquarters in Denmark). Black magnetic grilles come as standard in the box.

We've even lavished attention on the cover-rings, which hide the mounting screws. They're one-piece molded with the surface finish embedded in the material, which eliminates the need for lacquer – so they won't degrade over time.

If you want an audiophile-level standmount speaker for a stereo set-up in a medium-sized room, or fancy a little more 'oompf' from your rear surround channels, the Emit 20 is the ideal choice.