Dynaudio
| Dynaudio A / S
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1977 |
| Seat |
 Skanderborg
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| Number of employees | 350, of which 32 are in development |
| Branch | Consumer electronics |
| Website | www.dynaudio.com |
Dynaudio is a Danish manufacturer of high quality loudspeakers . The company is active in four business areas: Home Systems , Professional , Automotive and Multimedia .
The name Dynaudio is made up of the terms dynamics and audio. The company's slogan is “All there is”.
The main location of the Dynaudio Group is in Skanderborg, Denmark, with around 200 employees, where the loudspeakers are developed, produced and manufactured. All international marketing and sales activities are coordinated at Dynaudio International GmbH in Rosengarten (Germany, near Hamburg).
Further sales locations are in Great Britain , the Netherlands , the USA and China .
history
The company was founded in Denmark in 1977 by Wilfried Ehrenholz, Gerhard Richter and Ejvind Skaaning. The company's longstanding mission has been known as 'Authentic Fidelity'. This should be a differentiation to the quality standards of " high fidelity ", as the sound engineers at Dynaudio wanted to set higher demands on sound quality than were defined in the Hi-Fi DIN 45500 at the time.
Since 1968 there have been research projects by Danish engineers in the loudspeaker sector, from the results of which the company emerged.
Four years after Dynaudio was founded, Dynaudio's own membrane material, magnesium silicate polymer material, was developed by in-house engineers .
Many technical advances have been developed in collaboration with the universities in Aalborg and Aarhus .
In 1983 the loudspeaker Consequence was launched. What was particularly important at the moment was the compound construction with an internal and external woofer, which can produce deeper bass than a single woofer.
Dynaudio became famous in the hi-fi world in 1989 with the publication of the advertising brochure “The Book of Truth” and the advertising slogan “Danes don't lie”.
In 1993 Dynaudio Acoustics was founded together with studio designer Andy Munro, a brand in the professional sector.
In 1996 Dynaudio entered into a cooperation with Volvo .
One year later the compact loudspeaker Contour 1.3 SE appeared , which is currently characterized by a newly developed chassis and an elaborate crossover construction.
The company's flagship loudspeaker, Evidence Master , was launched in 1999.
The year 2002 was very eventful: For the 25th anniversary, the Special Twenty-Five model was released, signed by CEO Wilfried Ehrenholz. A few years later, editor-in-chief Wilfried Kress presented it with the Editors Choice Award as one of the best test devices of 2011 in the magazine hifi & records. The Evidence Temptation loudspeaker was also honored for its DDC ( Dynaudio Directivity Control ) technology with the Innovation Prize Innovations 2002 in the Design + Engineering Showcase category from the organizers of the world's largest Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This development is characterized by a vertically symmetrical arrangement of duplicate chassis and a specially designed crossover. Room acoustic problems should be reduced to a minimum by DDC.
This was followed by the Confidence model series, whose C2 and C5 floorstanding loudspeakers also feature DDC technology.
The cooperation with Volkswagen began in 2002 and continues to this day.
In 2005, the Focus loudspeaker series with the further developed Esotec + chassis generation was presented. In 2007, multimedia products came onto the market for the first time: high-end desktop loudspeakers MC15 and subwoofer Sub 250 MC.
For the 30th anniversary in 2007, the Sapphire model came onto the market. It was limited to 1000 pairs, with the last pair being auctioned off for the benefit of Doctors Without Borders .
In 2008, the Excite loudspeaker series was launched.
The Xeo speaker series , the company's first wireless speakers, appeared on the market in 2012. These were awarded the EISA Award 2012-2013 as Best Product in the European Wireless segment.
In spring 2013 the new Excite loudspeaker was presented.
In October 2014, the Chinese company Goertek Inc. took over the majority of the company, 83 percent. The remaining shares are held by the founder and Vice Director of the Board of Directors, Wilfried Ehrenholz.
To mark the company's 40th anniversary in 2017, Dynaudio launched the 2-way compact speaker Special Forty .
In 2018 a new generation of the Confidence High End series was presented; she uses u. a. a further developed DDC technology.
Product segments
Dynaudio Home Systems includes various series of speakers for hi-fi and home theater systems at home. There are compact, floor-standing, and center speakers and subwoofers.
Dynaudio Professional manufactures various series of listening monitors for recording studios . Numerous music and film productions are mixed using Dynaudio monitors. The best known include Coldplay , Depeche Mode , U2 , Matrix , Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter films. The British AIR Studios , Abbey Road Studios , Danish Radio, CCTV and WDR Cologne, among others, are equipped with Dynaudio monitors. Dynaudio Acoustics provides the “recommended standard monitors” for BBC Radio & Music .
Dynaudio Automotive includes audio systems for various vehicles. From 1996 to 2009 Dynaudio worked as a manufacturer of sound systems with Volvo and founded the Dynaudio Automotive division for this purpose . Also, Volkswagen and Bugatti are equipped with Dynaudio sound systems. From 2010 to 2016 Dynaudio was the exclusive premium sound partner of Volkswagen. In 2017, over 860,000 chassis were manufactured for VW. Since 2016, Volkswagen has also been having premium sound systems supplied by other providers.
Dynaudio Multimedia was created in 2007 with the introduction of the high-end desktop loudspeaker MC15 and the matching subwoofer Sub 250 MC. Since 2010 there has been a collaboration with the Taiwanese notebook and PC specialist MSI , from which the GT 660 gaming notebook emerged.
Current model series
- Confidence (so-called high end)
- Consequence (extremely complex 5-way loudspeaker, weight 114 kg)
- Contour
- Emit
- Evidence
- Excite
- Focus
- Sub
- Xeo (wireless)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b hifistatement.net of December 8, 2017, features section . 40 Years of Dynaudio , accessed January 12, 2020.
- ^ History of the company. Retrieved August 12, 2013 .
- ↑ fidelity-online.de of April 3, 2017 , accessed on January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Charity auction for Doctors Without Borders. Retrieved September 11, 2013 .
- ↑ EISA Award for Xeo. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 18, 2013 ; Retrieved September 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Dynaudio Sold to CE Company . In: ceoutlook.com . October 24, 2014 ( ceoutlook.com [accessed September 28, 2018]).
- ↑ stereo.de 4/2018, HiFi-Test Dynaudio Special Forty , accessed on January 10, 2020.
- ↑ audiophil-online from March 25, 2019, New Confidence Series from Dynaudio , accessed on January 9, 2020.
- ↑ Air Studio monitors. Retrieved September 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Dynaudio monitors “recommended standard monitors” from BBC Studios. Retrieved September 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Dynaudio sound systems in Volkswagen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 25, 2013 ; accessed on September 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Premium Sound Partner from Volkswagen. Retrieved September 11, 2013 .
- ↑ hifistatement.net of December 8, 2017, features section. 40 years of Dynaudio , especially image on page 4 , accessed on January 12, 2020.
- ↑ Dynaudio Consequence UE product data sheet (PDF, 249 kB), accessed on January 12, 2020.
Web links
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Dynaudio AIR6
Dynaudio BM6
Dynaudio BM15P
Dynaudio BM15P
Dynaudio Xeo 3, wireless
