When our engineers were developing the Focus XD loudspeakers, they sought to create an active, digital speaker that matched the Dynaudio vision: reproducing sound as it was recorded. These speakers had to deliver high-resolution 24bit / 192kHz uncompromising audio quality.
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To do so, they decided to transmit the signal losslessly from the source to the latest possible step in the chain - just before the drivers - without any analog conversion.
And their approach (the brilliant engineers that is) paid off. They created a loudspeaker that managed to surprise not only themselves but everyone at Dynaudio: "When our engineers presented the Focus 200 XD at an early stage in the development process, I was sitting there, unable to believe what I heard. The orchestra was playing in the widths and depths like it was real. I had never heard that before," said Wilfried Erhenholz, Founder.
The team of engineers matched each of the Focus XDs' drivers with its own digital amplifier (each driver has 150W power). And, the entire system has been fine-tuned using state-of-the-art Digital Signal Processing (which is usually shortened to the more colloquial DSP) to ensure the impressive sound reproduction is always delivered with precision and harmony - no matter the instrument.