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Dynaudio X32 Loudspeakers in Cherry Dynaudio X32 Loudspeakers in Cherry Posted On 8.03.2020
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Dynaudio X32 Loudspeakers

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Excellent condition and full working order apart from

Small nick in woodwork on one top side edge

Retail £1765

We love these Dynaudios. We're keen on the Excite range as a whole, but it's these X32s that shine brightest. So bright in fact, they were triumphant in our 2008 Awards.

These Dynaudios are smaller than the Aurousal VS and the Dali Ikon 7s also in the Group Test, but they are solidly built, and in our eyes, look fairly smart. We wouldn't object if the plinth offered a bit more stability, however.

Don't make the mistake of assuming that the relatively compact size must equal a smaller performance. Given The Battle from the Gladiator OST to play with, the Dynaudios respond with a rousingly big and dramatic rendition. The soundstage is far bigger than the speakers' proportions might suggest, and a deep, weighty bottom-end helps to produce a feeling of genuine scale.

Switch to Kings of Leon's Closer, and the Excites highlight and bring forward the excellent vocals, making the experience more intimate and immediate. This doesn't undermine the rest of the band, mind you: they're simply placed around the central performance, creating a perfectly natural, balanced whole.

Comfortable with every genre

It's this overall balance that proves the most valuable feature of the Dynaudios, as it lends them exceptional flexibility with musical genres. From the big-scale electronica of M83's Unrecorded, to the gentle introspection of Sufjan Stevens' John Wayne Gacy Jr, the X32s happily

send it out with honest musicality.

With the arrival of new competitors (namely the Spendor A5s), we are starting to see small chinks in their armour, though. One is that when pushed to very high volumes, they do lose a little clarity and composure. The other is that the treble could do with a bit more sparkle.

These are obviously minor niggles, but they're enough to prevent the Dynaudios from retaining top spot. If you've already got a pair, fear not, they're still exceptional, and if you're looking to buy now you should definitely give them an audition.

Dynaudio's four Excite models fall just above the lower-end DM range in a total of six complete consumer lines. The Excite X32 is a small, two-way, floorstanding, bass-reflex design with a 1" soft dome tweeter and two 5.7" magnesium-silicate-polymer mid/bass drivers. The cabinet seems to be well damped. I could run my fingers down the cabinet walls while heavy beat music was playing and detect only small levels of sympathetic vibrations. The top vibrated a bit more than any other panel, oddly enough. Some far-more-expensive speakers' cabinets vibrate much more. Excite models come in various wood veneer finishes with a medium-gray front baffle ($2800), in addition to white and black high-gloss finishes ($3000). My review samples came in an attractive white gloss. All passive Dynaudio speakers have a single pair of multi-way binding posts. The build-quality appears to be quite high.

The well-written manual gently assures the user that Excite models have “no unusual or extraordinary positioning demands.” I found the X32 to be, indeed, unfussy about positioning. The X32 worked well quite close to the back wall (tweeters about two feet from the wall) in a medium-sized room used mostly for video and background music; they did just as well in my 12.5* x 17* dedicated listening room set up quite far into the room (tweeters 68" from the back wall). I did, however, find that at least 200 hours of music playing time was needed to allow the bass to fully integrate with the midrange and upper end. The speakers also benefited from two loose baggies of lead shot placed on their tops. This added some focus and solidity to the sound and brought out tone colors a bit better than without.

The Excite X32 is a lively, fast, musically involving speaker with surprisingly extended, satisfying bass for its size. It seems to capitalize on music's natural sense of momentum. From solo acoustic guitar to Third Stream jazz to rock and classical, the X32 just seems to make all kinds of music come alive. We often tend to think that the “musical” appellation implies a kind of soft focus or a forgiving quality. The X32 achieves its musicality in exactly the opposite way; it charges music up with lots of detail, verve, and excitement. If I were pressed to sum up its tonal balance, I would say that it accents the upper frequencies in some systems, sometimes at the expense of midrange tone colors. In others, like an all-NAD system and in a beautiful ASR Emitter 1-based system (both owned by obliging friends), the X32 sounded just right and was simply stunning in its ability to resolve details, deliver commendable dynamic shadings, and just generally draw me into the listening experience. The fact that a $2800 speaker can be dropped into a $25k system (ASR) and truly shine is a testament to the X32's performance. Nonetheless, the usual precautions about system synergy apply.

In my own system, the X32 proved to be a very entertaining speaker. Even when the upward tilt I mentioned manifested itself on some recordings, the music still remained engaging and did not veer into distracting stridency. Music that can sound slightly dull in some systems seemed to be revivified through the X32. I have liked “Mingusiana” on Ralph Towner's A Closer View [ECM] for some time, but have regarded it as an “in-the-right-mood” kind of piece (single-malt whiskey sipping, maybe). This cut took on new inner momentum through the X32. The entire CD, mostly duets with bassist Gary Peacock, seemed to reveal layers of interplay between Towner and Peacock that are not always readily apparent through other speakers. The X32's resolution was so good that on “Opalesque” I could readily pick up the sounds caused by Towner either moving his left hand off the guitar neck only to return to the same neck location on repeated chords or hitting the same chord in a different neck position. Impressive for a $2800 speaker.

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