Dynaudio Confidence 50 - Floorstanding Speakers

The all-new Dynaudio Confidence 50 Floorstanding Speakers stand shoulder-to-shoulder in height with the Confidence C4 – the previous flagship of the range.

Like that legendary speaker, it’s a three-way design with twin woofers and twin midrange drivers. It uses DDC (Dynaudio Directivity Control) technology to form a sound ‘beam’ that avoids reflections from floors and ceilings. And it features an Esotar tweeter and MSP woofers.

But it takes all of this – every single component – to a new level of performance.

You might notice that while the previous Confidence floor-standers used two tweeters, the new Confidence 50 has just one. That’s because the engineers have discovered new ways to optimise crossovers, waveguides and baffles to create a much simpler, better-performing version of the DDC platform.

It all centres on the new DDC Lens – the stunning precision-machined waveguide around the brand-new Esotar3 tweeter. The DDC Lens has been simulated and topology-optimised to vertically focus the tweeter, midrange drivers and woofers on the listening position. That results in dramatically reduced reflections from floors and ceilings – which means you hear exactly what the driver system, and not the room, is doing.

The new 28mm Esotar3 soft-dome tweeter takes over 40 years of Dynaudio expertise, plus plenty of new learnings from the award-winning Esotar Forty unit – and rolls it all into the finest tweeter Dynaudio has ever developed. A powerful neodymium magnet system, innovations in airflow routing, the new resonance-busting Hexis inner dome, it all combines to increase detail, clarity and sensitivity.

The new 18cm NeoTec MSP woofers also have neodymium magnets under the hood, and use glass-fibre in their voice-coil formers for optimum stiffness. The voice-coils themselves are copper (which provides extra moving mass for tighter, more powerful and more controlled bass in this specific driver design). And the entire woofer motor has been designed to harness airflow using an innovative new venting system that’s been machined directly into the magnet.

The Confidence 50’s brand-new MSP midrange drivers are a big departure from previous Dynaudio designs.

They use a radical surround design – the Horizon – that follows the cone’s shape right to the edge of the driver. This reduces the surround’s first resonant mode to effectively increase the whole playing surface area and improve performance. They also sit flush with the baffle to reduce diffractions from the diaphragm and the adjacent tweeter.

Behind the scenes, the basket has been given a new lightweight organic design – one that’s come from extensive topology-optimisation simulations. It increases airflow, maintains its stability and rigidity and reduces weight simultaneously without sacrificing performance.

Everything is held securely in place in the ultra-rigid, super-damped and acoustically inert Compex composite baffle. It echoes the design of previous Confidences – but brings the look up to date in aesthetics and acoustic principles. That’s because it forms an integral part of the DDC Lens system, as well as providing perfect coupling and decoupling of the drivers.

Down below is the bass port . You won’t see it; it sits under the speaker. And because it fires downwards, Dynaudio has been able to design it to perform exactly as they want it to without having to worry about putting a big hole in the beautiful finish.

Brand-new Esotar3 tweeter

The legend continues. The all-new Esotar3 is optimised for detail, finesse and performance. It includes the ingenious Hexis resonance-defeating inner dome, plus innovations in materials, airflow and more.

Next-gen DDC technology

Dynaudio Directivity Control, our sound-shaping technology platform, has been rebooted, revamped and refined to include the DDC Lens –a unique machined waveguide that focuses your music exactly where it should go: your ears.

Technical Specifications

• Sensitivity: 87dB (2.83V / 1m)
• IEC Power Handling: 400W
• Impedance: 4 Ω (Minimum 2.7 Ω @ 79Hz)
• Frequency Response (± 3 dB): 35Hz–22kHz
• Box Principle: Bass reflex down-firing port
• Crossover: 3 way
• Crossover Frequency: 200, 2860Hz
• Crossover Topology: 2nd/3rd order with DDC
• Woofer: 2x 18 cm MSP
• Midrange: 2x 15 cm MSP
• Tweeter: 28 mm Esotar3
• Weight: 49.6 kg/109.3 lbs
• Dimensions (W x H x D): 218 x 1512 x 399 mm
• Dimensions with feet/grille (W x H x D): 364 x 1557 x 424 mm

Further Information

Dynaudio Confidence 50 - User Manual