Dynaudio Evoke 20

Dynaudio Evoke 20 - Large compact speakers for any room

Evoke 20 is a full-size compact speaker designed for almost any space. Its powerful 18 cm midrange/woofer ensures that it can go deep when needed, while its 28 mm soft-dome tweeter delivers the fine details. And of course, its Danish design looks fantastic no matter where you place it. It is an ideal match.

Evoke 20 is designed by people who love music. They created it from hundreds of hours of intensive measurement and listening - real listening, to real music, in real rooms. So when you play your collection, you know that you are hearing what they heard. Something truly special.

What makes the Evoke series so special?

There is no doubt that Evoke is something truly special. Both when you see it and when you listen to it for the first time. This is due in no small part to the fact that the series has been developed and designed by the same team behind Dynaudio`s most prestigious and most advanced products. We are talking about the brand-new Contour and Confidence series, as well as their professional studio monitors. These are speaker series that give their competitors a real run for their money, and the same is true of Evoke. The sound is exceptional, and it is balanced in its reproduction of the music, so you can listen to any genre with a smile on your face.

Each and every speaker in the Evoke series has been designed from the ground up. This applies both to the drivers and the technology, which are directly based on their reference models and professional series. Their studio monitors are used in the most highly respected recording studios, and that is why you will find that a lot of music simply sounds "right" on Dynaudio. That is because the speakers are faithful to what the artists heard when they mastered it. All the sensitivity, grandeur, and poetry that the artists put into the recording will be conveyed completely untouched to you by Evoke.

Developed in the most advanced measurement facilities

Dynaudio has gone all the way in the creation of the Evoke series. That is why Evoke has been analyzed in their Jupiter measurement facility, which is one of the world's - if not the most - advanced measuring rooms. The Jupiter room is a 13 x 13 x 13 m space with a 7 m long robot arm fitted with measurement microphones of the highest quality. Imagine the room from the X-Men films with the Cerebro machine, and you have an idea of what it looks like.

Dynaudio has put what some might consider a disproportionately large amount of effort into making the Evoke series as advanced as it is. Especially when you take the price into account. But they have struck the perfect balance between performance and price. Not everyone can afford Confidence or Contour, and that is why the Evoke series ensures that listeners can still experience a large part of what these super speakers have to offer. Both in terms of sound, the built-in technology, and the craftsmanship quality.

Evoke 20 key features

• Brand-new Cerotar tweeter
  A 28mm precision-coated soft-dome design derived directly from the award-winning Special Forty and the mighty new Confidence series. The new motor system uses strontium carbonate Ferrite+ ceramic magnets for improved sensitivity.
• The Hexis
  An ingenious inner tweeter dome that further smooths out the tweeter’s frequency response and minimises resonances – so all you get are the desirable ones. You’ll also find Hexis in the all-new Confidence.
• New Esotec+ woofers
  New long-throw designs for improved frequency response and low-frequency dynamics. They’re all made from MSP – a material we developed in-house and have used in our high-quality drivers for decades.
• Timeless Danish design
  Simple, clean, traditional, modern and luxurious. All at once. We’ve made sure Evoke is realistic for, and sympathetic with, real homes and real lives. It’s available in four finishes: Black High Gloss, White High Gloss, Walnut Wood and Blonde Wood.

Advanced driver technology

The 0.4mm thick, 18cm Esotec+ woofer is made from MSP (Magnesium Silicate Polymer), a proprietary material that we’ve been using in our speaker cones for decades. It provides the perfect balance of lightness, stiffness and damping that, combined with its strontium carbonate Ferrite+ ceramic magnet system, reproduces midrange and bass frequencies in perfect balance.

The whole diaphragm is made from one piece of MSP. Rather than gluing on a dust cap or just leaving a hole, this construction makes the cone far more rigid – and means far less physical distortion. It gives a much better physical connection to the voice-coil, which means more of the coil’s motion energy is transferred to the diaphragm via the Balance Ribs around the centre.

Evoke 20’s 52mm voice-coil is made from aluminium. We chose that over copper for this speaker because it gives the correct balance of weight and winding height to give bass frequencies power and enough mechanical and electrical damping, while also letting midrange frequencies (where a vast amount of musical detail lies) sing through clearly. A Nomex spider keeps everything centred and moving the way it should, while the seamless Contour-derived surround allows a longer throw ratio for greater power and punch.

The Cerotar tweeter

The tweeter is an original design. It’s called Cerotar, and is based on key technologies from our award-winning Esotar Forty anniversary tweeter and the mighty Esotar3, which you’ll find in the top-of-the-line Confidence series. Like all our other tweeters, it’s a 28mm unit and uses a precision-coated soft dome. This coating is applied in exactly the correct places and thicknesses to optimise high-frequency performance – it’s a process derived from the development of our most exclusive speakers.

But that’s where the similarity to everything except Confidence ends. Hidden behind the dome is a part called the Hexis: a special inner dome that shapes airflow to smooth-out the frequency response and eliminate unwanted resonances that would affect high-frequency performance. As with the Esotec+ woofer, it’s driven by a strontium carbonate Ferrite+ ceramic magnet for increased sensitivity, improved detail resolution and a natural, dynamic response.

That’s all a posh way of saying “it sounds really sweet, and you can listen to it for hours without even a hint of fatigue”. Time to get those prog-rock quadruple gatefold albums out of the attic…

A design for life

Our design department took field trips to show-homes, home-interiors stores and real-life dwellings in Denmark to hone Evoke 20’s look. It was important for them to be able to imagine the speakers in a variety of living spaces – because, after all, that’s how most people listen. They’re on a couch, with a coffee, and a dog… these speakers had to be hygge.

That’s why the four finishes are so relatable. You can choose from Black High Gloss and White High Gloss (which both use improved lacquering techniques for a stunning glass-like surface), as well as the warm and organic open-veneered Walnut Wood and Blonde Wood styles.

The cabinets themselves are tapered and rounded in a nod to the Contour and Confidence ranges. The mounting screws are hidden behind stylish one-piece trim rings. And because good design doesn’t age, you know they’ll look every bit as stylish when you’re still listening to them in 30 years.

Which, we hope, you will be.