Updated one-piece extended-excursion woofers packed with improved technology. You won’t find them on any other speaker. Anywhere.
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Contour 60
The big one: commanding, clear-cut, absolute
If you have a bigger listening room – or if you just like to play it loud – the Contour 60, with its unique midrange driver, is your new best friend
Contour 60
The big one: commanding, clear-cut, absolute. If you have a bigger listening room – or if you just like to play it loud – the Contour 60, with its unique midrange driver, is your new best friend.
If our designers loved working on the Contour 20 and 30, the Contour 60 was an even bigger ticket for them.
It’s a three-way design. At the bottom sit two 23cm MSP woofers (bigger, redesigned brothers of the 18cm drivers we’ve used in the Contour 20 and 30). At the top, like the jewel in the crown of every other speaker in the Contour range, is the magnificent Esotar2 soft-dome tweeter.
Between them is a completely updated15cm midrange driver. Like the rest of our drivers it uses an aluminium voice-coil. It also deploys a neodymium magnet system, and was designed using Finite Element Method optimisation techniques. We set Daniel, Danny, Andreas and their guys to work on it because we wanted the Contour 60 to retain that signature midrange sound in a large cabinet, without having to repurpose an existing driver for a job it wasn’t designed for. They did an amazing job.
Consistent Contour quality
All the drivers are powered by low-mass, high-durability aluminium voice-coils.
And the tweeter’s voice-coil sits – as they do across the Contour range – in a special magnetic ferrofluid. It works like a shock absorber and dissipates heat to reduce stress on the moving parts – which improves power-handling, widens the frequency response and ... and now we’re just boasting. What it means for you, in your favourite room, listening to your favourite music, is consistent Contour quality, at neighbour-bothering volumes (if you’re the type), all day.
The Contour 60 shares the same redesigned crossover and components as the rest of the range – and, of course, has Allan Kristiansen’s seal of factory approval on the construction and finish (his team will spot even the tiniest defect and spend three weeks refinishing not just one, but both speakers so they’re identical as a pair. They’re really hard to buy office furniture for).
The multi-layer curved cabinet and sleek-but-solid aluminium 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.
Contour 2016
Features
Esotar2
Contour uses the ultra-pure, ultra-clear Esotar2 fabric soft-dome tweeter. It’s Dynaudio’s finest tweeter and commonly regarded as one of the world’s best-ever drivers.
Extended-excursion woofers
Crossover
We’ve redesigned the entire crossover, including using ultra high-quality Mundorf capacitors and an improved wiring configuration for even better bass.
Curved cabinet
Elegant and sleek looking cabinet that provides a solid foundation for the drivers to do their job.
Driver
15cm midrange and 24cm extended-excursion woofers for clear-cut midrange and deep commanding bass performance.
Voice-coil
Large diameter copper-clad aluminium voice-coils with 84% increased winding height.
Spider
Improved symmetric spider for increased system symmetry.
Tweeter
World renown Esotar2 soft dome tweeter for ultra clear high-frequency reproduction.
Crossover
High-quality Mundorf capacitors and improved wiring configuration.
Cabinet
MDF cabinet with curved edges for a solid foundation.
Contour 60
Specifications
- Status Discontinued
- Segment Home
- Series Contour
- Type Floorstand
- Sensitivity (dB @ 2.83V/1m) 88
- IEC Power Handling (W) 390
- Rated Impedance (Ohm) 4
- Lower Cutoff (Hz @ +/- 3 dB) 28
- Upper Cutoff (kHz @ +/- 3 dB) 23
- Box Principle Bass reflex rear ported
- Crossover 3-way
- Crossover Frequency (Hz) 220,4500 Hz
- Tweeter 28 mm Esotar2
- Midrange 15 cm MSP
- Woofer 2x23 cm MSP
- Weight kg 54.3
- Weight lbs 120
- Width mm 255
- Height mm 1330
- Depth mm 420
- Width inches 10
- Height inches 52 3/8
- Depth inches 16 4/8
- Width mm incl. feet/grill 343
- Height mm incl. feet/grill 1359
- Depth mm incl. feet/grill 454
- Width inches incl. feet/grill 13 4/8
- Height inches incl. feet/grill 53 4/8
- Depth inches incl. feet/grill 17 7/8
Reviews
The Contour 60 - A New Milestone
The first review of our new Contour 60 has hit stands in Germany, as Matthias Boede has auditioned the 60 for STEREO – and he liked what he heard. STEREO gave the Contour 60 a sound quality level of 92% which was rewarded with an “Excellent” badge.
STEREO, Germany
"One of the best ways to spend ten grand"
Read our favourite quotes from SoundStage! Ultra's Contour 60 review written by Jeff Fritz and find a link to the original review below.
SoundStage!
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