Like the rest of the new Contour i family, the 30i has the all-new Esotar 2i tweeter – complete with the Hexis inner dome found throughout our flagship Confidence range and also in the Core series of professional studio reference monitors (trickle-down tech is an amazing thing, isn’t it…). Esotar 2i also gets a new, larger rear chamber. This, together with Hexis, helps to reduce unwanted resonances and smooth out the frequency response for even clearer, sweeter high-frequencies.
Contour 30i continues to use aluminum voice-coils, too. Dynaudio makes them extremely light – but also bigger than the old-style copper units you’ll find elsewhere. Lighter weight allows larger diameters with more windings, yet low weight, which means more control over the cone movement. And that means more control over the sound – especially at high frequencies and high volumes – exactly what you need in a mid/bass driver. And, as with Contour 20i, the flatter frequency response from the improved tweeter and mid/bass drivers means they’ve been able to simplify the crossover. The improved crossover no longer needs impedance correction circuitry to optimise its performance – that’s all now done in the driver itself, simply down to the physical properties of the materials we use. Fewer components, cleaner signal path, better performance.
Dynaudio Contour 30 Reviews
hifi+ Alan Sircom 2018
http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/dynaudio-contour-30-floorstanding-loudspeaker/
Absolute Sound Allan Moulton 2018
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/dynaudio-contour-30/