Over two decades ago, it took a loudspeaker manufacturer to produce the world’s best amplifier. To this day, our Arbiter is still unlike any other amplifier ever built. We always strive for perfection, and it has always been our ambition to create loudspeakers that reproduce music as authentically as possible – we want our loudspeakers to reproduce music as close to the musician’s vision as conceivable.
To do so, we test our speaker’s performance rigorously both in the development phase and before a speaker leaves our factory. However, we needed to test our speakers with an amplifier independent of limitations or sound characteristics in the development phase.
From that need, the idea behind the Arbiter was born: an internal tool to develop loudspeakers with the highest quality of music reproduction. Wilfried Ehrenholz, Co-founder of Dynaudio, who led the team behind for the Arbiter, said:
“We intended to use the highest possible standard of equipment for the complete testing of our loudspeaker designs. All known high-end amplifiers were tested against each other. All of them clearly exhibited limitations in performance and sounded different. But what was the true reproduction of music? So we were forced to consider alternative technologies. In the end, we decided that we had no choice but to design our own reference amplification. “
After three years of development, and 1,5 million euros in development costs, the last pieces of the Arbiter were put together, and the amplifier was born: providing the truest, uncolored, and transparent sound quality possible. Not specifically developed for sales, but as the reference for perfect signal reproduction.