They’re capable of presenting you with plenty of information without sucking the life out of the music. The speakers dig out an impressive level of detail across the board and manage to balance analysis and entertainment. The highs, the lows, the sweeping vocal and the crisp chimes all pique our interest. We also move on to Mountains by Bat For Lashes and the Dynaudios surf that retro ’80s synth wave effortlessly. In this instance, it’s the Naim Nait XS3. We switch electronics and swap out our Burmester amplification for something a little more price comparable. You’re left in no doubt these are a serious step up from entry-level, budget speakers. String instruments sound sweet and refined with it. Highs are a particular highlight when we play the end credits from Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Venture higher up the frequency range and the Dynaudios show they’re also seriously sophisticated speakers.

There’s good weight to low frequencies too, but the speakers never sound heavy-handed and leave plenty of space for textures to shine. Each drum thwack sounds solid and hits with authority before the speakers delve down to retrieve the darker, more probing bass notes of the track. We start with Kanye West’s Black Skinhead played through our reference Burmester 088/911Mk3 pre/power amplifier and Naim ND555/555 PS DR music streamer, and the Emit 20 immediately explode into life, producing a wide-open sound field and an impressive sense of scale. Our first impression of the Emit 20 is that, for standmounters, they sound big and display an impressive sense of scale. We also found a little toe-in towards our listening position helped give the stereo image greater focus. A rear-firing port arrangement makes speakers more sensitive to placement, so we’d try to refrain from tucking the ’20s up against a rear wall or into the corners of a room. On the back of the Emit 20 you’ll find single-wired connections and a new dual-flared bass-reflex port. The Emit 20 use a hybrid first- and second-order design for the tweeter and woofer respectively. The mid/bass driver and tweeter work together using a custom-designed crossover from the same team behind Dynaudio’s Heritage Special and Core speakers. The driver uses a dual-stacked ferrite-ceramic magnet system so its movement can be better controlled. According to Dynaudio, this helps to deliver 'even cleaner, sweeter high-frequencies'.īeneath the tweeter, the Emit 20 use a one-piece 18cm MSP (Magnesium Silicate Polymer) mid-bass woofer (up from 17cm on the old M20), based on the one found in the Evoke series. It controls airflow back into a rear chamber which reduces unwanted resonances behind the fabric dome. Speaker dimensions (hwd) 37 x 20.5 x 21.1cm / 8.1 x 14.6 x 12.3inĪ key feature of this tweeter is the Hexis inner dome, which sits just behind the main dome.

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