Audience 62
What Hi-Fi?, June 2001
Dynaudio’s reworking of its classic Audience range coninues apace with the 62s, which are designed for those with a small to mid-sized room but wanting the extra scale and bass weight offered by floorstanders. Once run in over a couple of days, many of the qualities we’d expect from the Audience range become evident in the 62s – dynamics are good, and the levels of musical detail and insight are typically excellent. They deliver the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street with fabulous energy and realism: the vicious groove of ‘Ventilator Blues’ is captured with every ounce of musical aggression intact – without the overall presentaion ever sounding harsh.
The Dynadios sound best when positioned fairly close to a back wall and with a mild degree of toe-in. The bass reflex port is positioned below the 17cm carbon-impregnated polypropylene cone midbass driver and 28mm soft-dome tweeter, rather than at the back of the cabinet, which is why these speakers are happy when close to a wall.
They manage to reach down further into low frequencies than their smaller cousins, the Audience 52s (a good 10Hz lower according to Dynadio) and this gives the Audience 62s an excellent sense of scale and power. The result is that Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon is given a finely balanced airing, power and precision combining to produce a superb overall musical effect.
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