PUNCH, FINESSE AND PURE ENTERTAINMENT

With great power comes great responsibility. Thats why these large floorstanders are just as adept at shaking the room as they are reproducing the finest of details.

The all-new Confidence 50 stands shoulder-to-shoulder (or baffle-to-baffle) in height with the Confidence C4 the previous flagship of the range.

Like that legendary speaker, its a three-way design with twin woofers and twin midrange drivers. Its stunningly constructed. Stunningly finished. And a stunning performer. 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. Thats because the engineers toiling away in Dynaudio Labs 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 (we think youll agree thats a mouth-watering combination right there). 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 weve 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 thats been machined directly into the magnet.

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

They use a radical surround design the Horizon that follows the cones shape right to the edge of the driver. This reduces the surrounds 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 thats 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. Thats 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 wont see it; it sits under the speaker. And because it fires downwards, weve been able to design it to perform exactly as we want it to without having to worry about putting a big hole in the beautiful finish.

And, honestly, you have to hear it to believe it