If you have a bigger listening room or if you just like to play it loud the Contour 60i, with its unique midrange driver, is your new best friend
Contour 60i sounds bigger than you d think. Yes, we mean that
And it isn t just because it s a grown-up, full-size, three-way floorstander. Of course it s capable of outright, neighbor-infuriating volume. It sounds big in other ways too from the soaring soundstage of a top orchestral recording to the caffeinated surround-sound effects in a movie, Contour 60i simply fills the room without resorting to bass-heavy bombast along the way.
Starting at the top, you ll find the jewel in the crown: the all-new Esotar 2i tweeter. We looked at the older Esotar 2 from the 2016 Contour, took it apart and realized we could give it a boost with some tech from our flagship Confidence range (the Hexis) and also our flagship Core professional reference monitor series (the larger rear chamber). Together these clever mods help to reduce unwanted resonances and smooth out the frequency response for even clearer treble performance.
Contour 60i is the only model in the family to have a dedicated midrange driver. It uses an aluminum voice-coil, and also has a neodymium magnet system all developed and optimized at the Dynaudio Labs in Denmark. It is, in fact, exactly the same midrange driver we used in the 2016 Contour 60. If it ain't broke
Where the difference lies is in how it s mounted. We've used more tech from Core here, isolating it in a precision-molded cup containing resonance-defeating ribs. If there s one thing you can never have too much of, it s midrange clarity and Contour 60i now has even more.
Dynaudio Contour Woofer
The two woofers are new. Each has a bigger magnet system, a different voice-coil design and a glass-fibers voice-coil former, as first used in the Confidence range and Sub 6 subwoofer. That means even tighter bass, at higher volume. We ve chosen copper for these ones over aluminum. Why Because they re dedicated bass drivers. Copper is heavier and provides more moving mass. More moving mass lets us dig deeper without impinging on the midrange, handled by the super-sprightly driver just above.
Dynaudio Contour Crossover
The crossover is brand-new, too. You can t change all the drivers without taking a look at the speaker s brain , after all. Plus, the effect of that molded midrange cup and the Nomex woofer spiders let our engineers shift the crossover frequency up. It now works better at slightly higher frequencies (up to around 300Hz). The frequency curve in this area is also flatter, meaning better midrange performance from a simpler design.
The multi-layer curved cabinet and sleek-but-solid aluminum 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.
New Esotar 2i tweeter
Featuring a larger rear chamber and now the Hexis inner dome, which helps to reduce unwanted resonances and flatten the frequency response
New spider
New asymmetric spider for increased system symmetry and this one is made from aramid fibers for improved acoustic response
New crossover
Extensive tweaks from the 2016 Contour model have led to a simpler, cleaner, and even better-performing unit
Voice coil
Large diameter, long throw copper voice-coils
