The M30 floorstanders share the same DNA as our top-of-the-line loudspeakers. Their twin 17cm MSP bass drivers each feature a large 75mm aluminium voice-coil (larger voice-coils mean more windings, which means more control over dynamics, detail and finesse), and their 28mm soft-dome tweeters have rear damping chambers for even greater precision. It’s the sort of thing you might expect to see in much higher-priced speakers. And it’s the sort of sound you might expect, too.

Contour 30 steps it up a notch from the 20. Of course, it still treads the same path – one of honesty, transparency and sheer entertainment, but it puts it all in a bigger package.

Like the rest of the new Contour i family, the 30i has the all-new Esotar 2i tweeter – complete with the Hexis inner dome found throughout our flagship Confidence range and also in the Core series of professional studio reference monitors (trickle-down tech is an amazing thing, isn’t it…). Esotar 2i also gets a new, larger rear chamber. This, together with Hexis, helps to reduce unwanted resonances and smooth out the frequency response for even clearer, sweeter high-frequencies.

If you have a bigger listening room – or if you just like to play it loud – the Contour 60i, with its unique mid-range driver, is your new best friend.

And it isn’t just because it’s a grown-up, full-size, three-way floorstander. Of course it’s capable of outright, neighbour-infuriating volume. It sounds big in other ways too – from the soaring soundstage of a top orchestral recording to the caffeinated surround-sound effects in a movie, Contour 60i simply fills the room – without resorting to bass-heavy bombast along the way.

If a pair of Evoke 50s in a room doesn’t say “statement of intent”, we don’t know what does. Use them in stereo. Use them as part of an Evoke multi-channel home cinema system. However you listen to them, the word ‘epic’ won’t be far from your lips.

Evoke 50 is a full three-way floorstander with a 28mm soft-dome tweeter, a 15cm neodymium midrange driver and twin 18cm woofers.

Audience 52

The Dynaudio Audience 52, as the model 42, is a further development of its justly renown and award winning predecessor, the Audience 50.

Audience 52

The Dynaudio Audience 52, as the model 42, is a further development of its justly renown and award winning predecessor, the Audience 50.

The M30 floorstanders share the same DNA as our top-of-the-line loudspeakers. Their twin 17cm MSP bass drivers each feature a large 75mm aluminium voice-coil (larger voice-coils mean more windings, which means more control over dynamics, detail and finesse), and their 28mm soft-dome tweeters have rear damping chambers for even greater precision. It’s the sort of thing you might expect to see in much higher-priced speakers. And it’s the sort of sound you might expect, too.