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DYNAUDIO CORE 7 Active Studio Monitors

Dynaudio’s Core series of studio monitors has that feeling of getting back to basics. It was as if Dynaudio went a little too ‘mad scientist’ with the previous flagship studio speakers, the Air series, and Core is the natural course correction.

The Air series was a bit of a marvel, no doubt. It promised to be a seamless intersection of hardware components and software DSP right from the beginning. Drivers would come off the manufacturing line with a perfectly-matched DSP correction to accompany them. But perhaps the more DSP you add and the more obvious you make it, the less it feels like you can trust the physical hardware. What’s to stop Dynaudio hooking up a hand-folded piece of paper to a DSP chip and calling it a professional listening solution?

There was nothing wrong with how the Air series sounded. At the time of its debut it was a revolutionary idea. There wasn’t much in the way of operator-controllable monitoring DSP in studios, so Dynaudio figured it would pack that power into a speaker. If there was an uncomfortable feeling about them, it was more to do with the

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