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Dynaudio Evoke 5.1 pack

A few years ago, when travel was still something people did, we visited Denmark and stood inside a huge chamber — a 13-metre cube — fitted with an in-house-designed speaker measurement system known as Jupiter. High up toward the ceiling hung a massive structure in a half circle bearing 31 microphones at six degree intervals (see overleaf), able to measures 180 degrees of sound in a single hit. This array encircled a lone Dynaudio floorstanding speaker perched high in a vertigoinducing manner on a small separate platform.

This vast chamber is where Dynaudio tests its speakers. Denmark has a long and strong reputation for hi-fi, and loudspeakers in particular, but Dynaudio is no Danish enthusiast collective knocking together cabinets in an outhouse while chewing on strips of . Dynaudio has never been like that. From its inception in 1977 it made its own crossovers; within a year it was able to release the Model 100, a speaker using only Dynaudio’s own drivers. A series of design innovations followed — Centre

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