Dynaudio Evoke 25C

Dynaudio Evoke 25C - A powerful and refined floorstanding speaker

The Evoke 25C is a dedicated center speaker designed to match all the other speakers in the Evoke family - so you can bathe your ears in high-quality stereo just as effectively as you can have the stuffing shaken out of your teeth by a summer blockbuster. Director Danny Boyle said that sound makes up 70-80 percent of the movie experience. And when you watch a film, most of that 70-80 percent is reproduced by the center channel. That lets you bring the cinema home, which is much better. You do not have to stand in line, the floor is not sticky, and you do not get overcharged for snacks. On top of that, you can create a far superior sound experience. But for that, you need a center channel.

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 hear it for the first time. Not least because 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 ranges that give their competitors more than a run for their money, and that is also the case with Evoke. The sound is exceptional, and it is balanced in the way it reproduces 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. That applies to both the drivers and the technology, which are directly based on their reference models and professional ranges. Their studio monitors are used in the most 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 stay true 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 went all the way in creating the Evoke series. That is why Evoke was analyzed in their Jupiter measurement facility, which is one of the world's - if not the most - advanced measurement rooms. The Jupiter room is a 13 x 13 x 13 m room with a 7 m long robotic arm fitted with measurement microphones of the highest quality. Imagine the room from the X-Men movies with the Cerebro machine, and you have an idea of what it looks like.

Dynaudio has put what some might consider a disproportionate 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, built-in technology, and craftsmanship.

Evoke 25C 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.

Cerotar tweeter

Like the rest of the Evoke range, the tweeter is the original design Cerotar. It’s 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 Dynaudio tweeters, it 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 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.

The Cerotar tweeter is powered 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 “even if you’re watching one of those box-sets that lasts for nine hours, your ears won’t get tired”. Which, of course, is exactly as it should be.

Updated woofer technology

Evoke 25C’s twin 14cm Esotec+ mid/bass drivers are made from MSP (Magnesium Silicate Polymer), a material we’ve been using for our woofer diaphragms since the dawn of Dynaudio. It provides exactly the right combination of lightness, stiffness and damping to balance the needs of precise bass performance with clear, detailed midrange.

Each speaker cone is crafted from a single piece of MSP. This makes them exactly the right amount of rigid – and means far less physical distortion when they’re playing. It also gives a super-solid physical connection to the glass-fibre voice-coil former on the back (it’s glued directly under the Balance Ribs you’ll see around the centre), which means more of the coil’s motion energy is transferred to the diaphragm.

The 38mm voice-coils themselves are made from aluminium, making them extremely light. That means we can use more windings. More windings gives us more control over the cone’s movement, which means more control over the sound – even at high volumes and high frequencies. That’s especially important in a centre speaker, which predominantly deals with speech – its midrange performance has to be absolutely top-notch.

The woofer motor is kept stable, centred and true by the Nomex spider (the circular spring assembly that stops the cone moving when it shouldn’t, and lets it move when it should), while the Contour-derived surround allows a longer throw ratio for greater punch. And, like the Cerotar tweeter, the woofers are both driven by ceramic Ferrite+ magnets for greater control, finesse and power. In non-speaker-designer language, that means “you’ll hear your movie the way it was meant to be heard”. No rough edges, nothing standing out where it shouldn’t – and nothing relegated to a cameo when it should be the lead.

Made for (home) movies

Our design department took inspiration from show homes, home interior stores and real-life homes in Denmark to refine the look of the Evoke 25C. After all, it is just as much a piece of furniture as the couch you sit on to watch your movies.

That is why the four finishes are so easy to relate to. 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 cabinet is tapered and rounded as a nod to the Contour and Confidence ranges, while the mounting screws are hidden behind stylish one-piece trim rings. Like a great movie, a great design does not age. Evoke 25C will remain as timeless and thrilling as the classics you play through it.