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Anyone own or heard Dynaudio's Contour S 3.4? Thoughts? Thanks
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Hi,
I own the S.34's and the Special25's.
Here's my obversations.enjoy,
M
as in a couple of minutes. Moon CDP, McIntosh amp, speakers perhaps not quite broken in as they had only been at the dealer's for a few days and had been run continuously for the weekend and this was early on the Monday morning.Typical Dynaudio sound - that means I liked them - with good overall balance and clarity. Didn't hear them long enough to say any more and I'm not familiar enough with the old 3 or 3.3, or the new Confidence floorstander to offer comparisons though I have heard the Confidence briefly a few times and thought that the 3.4 had some of what the Confidence offers.
If you like the Confidence and can't afford it, or you liked the old 3 or 3.3, the 3.4 may very possibly be what you're looking for.
nt
As I said, I heard the 3.4s for a couple of minutes only.My system is tweaked out with a lot of vibration/resonance control, some power treatment and a bit done on the room acoustics as well. I've got it sounding significantly better than the 1.3 SEs sounded in the showroom when I bought them - the same room, actually, but it's had a bit of acoustic treatment in the meantime and sounds much better than it did when I originally heard the 1.3 SEs there.
What I heard with the 3.4s on a quick listen was better bottom end extension and weight (big surprise given the size differential) and some improvement in clarity overall. It wasn't enough of an improvement to make me feel what I'm getting at home is inadequate, but I did leave with the impression that if I took them home and worked with them in my system the way I've balanced things with the 1.3 SEs, the 3.4s would sound noticeably better than what I heard in the shop and that there would be clear improvements over the 1.3 SEs in the two areas I mentioned and no doubt in others as well.
I really wasn't listening to the speakers as speakers - I was listening for distortion on a disc, and I only played half a track to convince myself it was there. I'd been concerned that the distortion may have been coming from my speakers and I left happy that it wasn't. Not really the sort of hearing on which to form a real impression of the 3.4 but it will beat the 1.3 SE at a very significant price increase.
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