There are said to be companies which will turn out a hundred thousand boxes a month. And if they can flog more, they'll raise their workers' quota. For any truth-loving Dane, this is a horror scenario. We at Dynaudio build a limited number of speakers each year. It has to do with a definition of quality which we have developed during our more than twenty years of experience. Many of our staff and skilled craftsman have been working for us for more than half of that time. Let no one say we're just an ordinary company. The craftsman who build enclosures for Dynaudio are all qualified furniture carpenters. The last time these people heard of an "assembly line" was in school.

In the Workshop
In our workshop there's no machine that spits out a complete enclosure every five seconds. Instead, Knud-Erik Veber is sawing and cutting, sanding and veneering for three days on just one Consequence. (In good weather, he'll take half as long on a Contour 1.8). He'll know what he's done, afterwards. And the speaker he'll have built is as unique and prestigious as the expensive wood from which it's made.

Not quite as normal is the care we take of our woods. All cabinet veneers are hand selected by master craftsmen trained in the Danish art of furniture making. One master craftsman builds each pair of loudspeakers, from start to finish, during all stages of assembly, construction and finishing. An individual speaker pair is cut from a single sheet of veneer, and assurances are made that all grain matches.

The discovery of slowness.
The principle of mass production promises incredible rationalization effects, impressive unit cost reductions and breathtaking profit maximization. Many companies just love this. We, however, have mixed feelings towards mass production.

Our D-28 tweeter, which has become a legend for its excellent performance, after more than 17 years in continuous production, still takes 32 minutes to make. Some of our competitors will build a not necessarily comparable model in 2.4 minutes (including the artistically important part, packaging).

Which inevitably raises the question what our employees are doing in those other 29.6 minutes. Nope. They're working. With precision, attention to detail and devotion to their task. Just like their colleagues who build bass drivers (45 minutes for us; 3 minutes for most others).

We're all ears.
The trained ear drum will hear more than a hundred engineers. So just before and just after the initial production is started for a new model, we put every loudspeaker, after its frequency response and its impedance curves have been measured (with very close tolerances), to a listening test which can take up to three hours, to establish a "reference". Truth is a beautiful thing. Especially if you can prove it. Therefore, we will put the individual measurement record of every one of these loudspeakers into our famous Skanderborg safe. With all data and results, signed by Erik Nielsen and a managing director. Extra assurance of quality.