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DYNAUDIO SPECIAL FORTY

Danish loudspeaker leader Dynaudio likes a good birthday party. It turned 40 years old in 2017, celebrating four decades since its founding, and it chose to mark the occasion by, amongst other things, releasing a special anniversary loudspeaker, aptly named the Special Forty.

It’s not the first such special edition speaker. A ‘Special One’ closed off the company’s first decade, and was memorable as a contender for the first truly high-end compact monitor, so well regarded that the same concept was used as the basis for the now-legendary Contour 1.3 SE.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary Dynaudio produced the ‘Special Twenty-Five’, finished in an exclusive veneer, and for its 30th anniversary, the unusual Sapphire. And now the ‘Special Forty’. What wonders have the Danes delivered this time?

EQUIPMENT

The Special Forty was fully designed and engineered in

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