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Dynaudio Contour Legacy - Floorstanding Speakers
Dynaudio Contour Legacy Speaker - Front / Side
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Dynaudio Contour Legacy - Floorstanding Speakers

Sale Price £10,200.00
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Colour: American Walnut
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The Dynaudio Contour Legacy is a beautiful floor-standing 2.5-way speaker that echoes the look of 2020’s best-selling Heritage Special. It tips a nod to the original Contour speakers from the 1980s and 90s, while bringing everything up to date with Dynaudio’s latest driver know-how and acoustic technology.

It uses Dynaudio’s top-level 28mm Esotar 3 soft-dome tweeter (including the Hexis resonance-defeating inner dome); dual 18cm woofers derived from the classic Evidence range (then tweaked and souped-up to an even more amazing level); plus a beautifully elegant crossover packed with select premium components.

Contour Legacy is hand-made at Dynaudio’s headquarters in Skanderborg, Denmark. It’s finished in sustainable American Walnut, with each piece of veneer carefully chosen and matched for every individual speaker (when you see them, you’ll realise just how well-spent that time was). The production-run is limited to 1000 pairs worldwide; each comes with its own pair number for posterity.

Remastering a Classic

Contour Legacy is an intentional homage to the late, great Contour 1.8, so you might already be expecting a listening experience that’s a trip down memory lane. Or Penny Lane.

Beneath that chocolate brown American Walnut veneer lives a totally different generation of technology. The original drivers and electronics from the elder Contour have been replaced by components that look superficially familiar, but sound substantially better.

As a Contour Legacy owner, you have permission to feel nostalgic but modern – whether you’re streaming or lowering a stylus.

Dynaudio sound engineers had two demanding critics to impress. Their ears.

Curves and bends have found their way into the shapes of modern Dynaudio speakers, shaping and controlling pressure-waves, reflections, refractions… smoothly guiding sound to its smiling, satisfied destination.

But part of what makes the Contour Legacy so comforting and familiar is its old-school, rectangular format. So, how did Dynaudio's R&D team get around this obstacle and still deliver such outstanding results?

They modified the woofers from the Evidence Platinum, placing them in parallel, with the lower one increasing the sensitivity of its upper neighbour – so the upper driver handles midrange and bass, while the lower one just handles bass. Which meant they needed to design a higher impedance voice coil. Which meant no crossover was available off the shelf to orchestrate this idiosyncratic selection – so the team designed one from scratch, including capacitors and connecting wiring from Europe’s finest manufacturers, including Duelund, Mundorf and Van den Hul.

Then they crowned it with our legendary Esostar 3 tweeter. A tweeter that needs no introduction here.

From concept to engineering model to verification and prototypes – with all the tweaking and modification in between – Dynaudio sound tuners spend approximately two weeks listening per iteration.

In fact, around 70 per cent of the modifications to a loudspeaker such as Contour Legacy are done as the result of listening, rather than looking at data.

At the end of the day, regardless of a loudspeaker’s raison d'être, it’s in the sweet spot where the real verdict is made, and that’s where the Contour Legacy will leave a lasting one.

Technical Specifications

  • Sensitivity (dB @ 2.83V/1m): 90
  • IEC Power Handling (W): 200
  • Rated Impedance (Ohm): 4
  • Lower Cutoff (Hz @ +/- 3 dB): 42
  • Upper Cutoff (kHz @ +/- 3 dB): 29
  • Box Principle: Bass reflex rear ported
  • Crossover: 2.5-way
  • Crossover Frequency (Hz): 3400 Hz
  • Crossover Topology: 1st/2nd order
  • Tweeter: 28 mm Esotar 3
  • Woofer: 2x 18cm MSP cone
  • Weight: 32.5kg
  • Dimensions (W x H x D): 208 x 995 x 345mm

Further Information

Dynaudio Contour Legacy - User Manual (PDF)

What is Our Return Policy?

Subject to the below exceptions,Studio Incar LTD is happy to exchange or refund your purchase within 30 days of delivery. Your refund will be credited to the original payment card on the day of request but may take up to 14 working days.

Unwanted goods must be returned in a fully re-saleable condition and any packaging must be intact. We reserve the right to refuse an exchange or full refund if goods are not returned in a re-saleable condition or are damaged. If these conditions are met we will gladly offer a replacement, exchange or refund.

Refunds on promotional goods purchased under a promotional offer will be based on the terms of the promotional price. Our 30 days returns policy is in addition to the standard 14 day returns offered by the Consumer Contact Regulations.

If for any reason you believe your product is defective please notify us immediately on 01489 578951 or via email. If your product is faulty or covered under warranty any carriage costs incurred shipping the goods back will be refunded up to the amount of £10.

Upon receipt of your order you are advised to carefully inspect the package and goods to ensure they are intact and complete, before signing for receipt of delivery. Should you find the parcel to be damaged or incomplete you must refuse delivery of the goods.

Please report any damaged or faulty items to Studio Incar within 24 hours of receipt of the goods and provide any information requested (eg photographs) within 24 hours.

If you have ordered the incorrect part or wish to return an order we will gladly exchange the product free of charge with just the carriage to pay.

How do I Return a Product?

Please follow the instructions below before returning any goods

We require all returned goods (defective, damaged, unwanted or otherwise) to be sent back to us in the original condition they were received in, with all accessories, manuals and the original packaging. Items that are being returned purely because they are no longer wanted should be returned in unopened packaging. Studio Incar retain the right to refuse a refund or charge an appropriate fee for items that are returned without original packaging and/or without accessories and manuals.

Collection Procedure

    1. In the event of a product failing, your first course of action should be to contact Studio Incar at info@studioincar.co.uk
    2. Within 6 months of purchase date: Once the fault has been established and deemed impossible to be solved on site, Studio Incar will arrange for collection of the item at cost to the customer. This will be refunded in full if the item is found to be faulty.
    3. Please note that if the item has a non-warrantable fault the customer will be charge for carriage both ways, parts and labour.

Our Return address is:

Returns
Studio Incar
Unit 23, Mitchell Close
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PO15 5SE

    How do I Cancel an Order?

    You may cancel your order (or any part of it) for any reason before dispatch, however, if your order has already been dispatched & is with the courier a restocking fee may apply.

    Please email us at info@studioincar.co.uk or call 01489 578951 to cancel an order.

    The products we use and sell are of the highest quality and we trust them wholeheartedly, but every now and again a product has a fault that is covered under the manufacturers warranty.

    In the event of such an occurance please contact us via email at info@studioincar.co.uk to proceed with the warranty process.

    Below is a list of all the Manufacturers warranty timeframes with any special instructions for extended warranties:

    Alpine

    • 1 Year Standard Manufacturers Warranty

    Amphion

    5 Years standard Manufacturers Warranty

    AudioControl

    • 5 Years with Installation by an Authorised Installer (Studio Incar is an Authorised Installer)
    • 1 Year if you are doing your own Installation
    • 2 Years if you register the product with the UK supplier

    AudioLab

    • 2 Years standard Manufacturers warranty

    Audison

    • 1 Year standard Manufacturers warranty
    • 2 Years if you register the product with the UK supplier

    Auralic

    • 90 Days Standard Manufacturers Warranty
    • 3 Years Extended Warranty - Product Registration within 30 days of Purchase

    Blackvue

    • 6 Months standard Manufacturers warranty

    Blaupunkt

    1 Year standard Manufacturers warranty

    Chord Company

    • Lifetime Warranty

    Cyrus Audio

    • 40 series - 5 Years
    • XR series - 3 Years
    • Classic series - 2 Years
    • Turntable - 3 Years

    Product Registration Here

    Dynaudio

    • 2 Years on Car Audio Products - No Extendable Warranty
    • 2 Years standard Warranty on Home Audio Products
    • up to 8 Years Extendable Warranty on Home Audio Products when you register at Dynaudio

    Focal

    • 1 Year Standard Manufacturers Warranty
    • 2 Years Extended Warranty when registered with Focal

    Hegel

    • 2 Years Standard Manufacturers Warranty

    Hertz

    • 1 Year standard Manufacturers warranty
    • 2 Years if you register the product with the UK supplier

    HiFi Rose

    2 Years Standard Manufacturers Warranty

    iFi Audio

    • 1 Year Standard Manufacturers Warranty

    JL Audio

    • 1 Year for Speakers and Subwoofers
    • 2 Years for Amplifiers and Processors

    Luxman

    3 Years Standard Manufacturers Warranty

    Mission

    1 Year Standard Manufacturer Warranty

    3 Years Extended Warranty if Registered with Mission

    Ortofon

    • 1 Year Standard Manufacturers Warranty

    Peachtree Audio

    • 2 Years Standard Manufacturers Warranty
    • 3 Years Extended Warranty if Registered with Peachtree

    Pro-Ject

    • 2 Years Standard Manufacturers Warranty
    • 3 Years Extended Warranty if Registered with Pro-Ject

    Q-Acoustics

    • 4 Years for Passive Loudspeakers
    • 1 Year for Active Loudspeakers / Subwoofers
    • 5 Years for Passive Loudspeakers if Registers with Q Acoustics
    • 2 Years for Active Loudspeakers / Subwoofers if Registered with Q Acoustics

    SolidSteel

    • 1 Year Standard Manufacturer Warranty

    Sony

    • 1 Year Standard Manufacturer Warranty

    Wharfedale

    • 2 Years Standard Manufacturers Warranty
    • 3 Years Extended Warranty if registered with Wharfedale