I bought the Contour 60 after owning for one year the old Contour 3.3 (very good speaker) hoping in a improvement. Worst buy of my life. Wrong timbre, messy soundstage, boomy, boring. I don’t know your focals but i would not go for the Dynaudio. The "i" will not make the difference. Go to a dealer and choose.
Focal vs dynaudio
Hi folks. Here once more to discuss the “Ford vs Chevy”
i currently have focal 1028be speakers which I’m relatively happy with. Looking tp go a bit further and here are my 3 options..
Upgrade my nad m32 to a pass labs x150.8 and m12 combo $4500 difference.
swap out the 1028 be for 1038 (whenever a pair becomes available) 7500 ish
swap out the 1028s for dynaudio contour 60/60i. 7500 ish
I’m currently enjoying the nad due to its huge list of features (we live in a digital world now). And I have 2 Jl fathom 110s which need the onboard xover hence why I’m staying with the preamp portion. I listen 80 music 20 movies and overall want a fuller warmer larger sound.
One thing to also keep in mind the tweeter on my right 1028 has a hair line fracture in it. Unsure how it happened but I have my suspicions. (Cd skipping with a loud abrupt pop when trying a different source... Wondering if the soft domes are a bit less susceptible to damage? Didn’t take much and it’s only 1... let’s here your thoughts! Room is un ideal 16’wx19.5d
i currently have focal 1028be speakers which I’m relatively happy with. Looking tp go a bit further and here are my 3 options..
Upgrade my nad m32 to a pass labs x150.8 and m12 combo $4500 difference.
swap out the 1028 be for 1038 (whenever a pair becomes available) 7500 ish
swap out the 1028s for dynaudio contour 60/60i. 7500 ish
I’m currently enjoying the nad due to its huge list of features (we live in a digital world now). And I have 2 Jl fathom 110s which need the onboard xover hence why I’m staying with the preamp portion. I listen 80 music 20 movies and overall want a fuller warmer larger sound.
One thing to also keep in mind the tweeter on my right 1028 has a hair line fracture in it. Unsure how it happened but I have my suspicions. (Cd skipping with a loud abrupt pop when trying a different source... Wondering if the soft domes are a bit less susceptible to damage? Didn’t take much and it’s only 1... let’s here your thoughts! Room is un ideal 16’wx19.5d
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What i can tell you is that the good reputation Dynaudio has is for the
products before 2014. In 2014 the company changed ownership and probably
a new philosophy is ruling the product line now. I know some of their
old product like contour 1.3 mkII, contour 3.3, Confidence 5, Confidence
C4, and all of them are great speakers, with a clear idea about timbre
and spatiality. The new speaker lines have absolutely nothing to do with
the old series on which the reputation of Dynaudio relies.
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Here you can find a few other people which had exactly the same experience i had with the Contour 60. Good luck https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/okay-how-important-is-speaker-break-in-dynaudio-contour-60i |