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Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 3.00 votes

Price Paid:  $850.00 from singapore

Summary:
the ones i have are the 52's..the dealer in spore had a runout sale cos dynaudio are comin out with the real wood version..it was a bargain...sounded fantastic outa the box..after running in 4 500 hrs...it was heaven equipment arcam cd 72 cd player rega brio amp cyrus interconnect chord carnival speaker cables LAT international AC power cords soundstage is exceptionally wide n deep (even in my small room)..vocals r sweet like honey n the highs r intoxicating..u can hear every ping n ting...bass is fluid n very timely...overall sound is very natural...just close your eyes n b taken 2 heaven..keep in mind these r not very expensive speakers n listen 2 the sound they make...blown away

Strengths:
female vocals sounds the best

Weaknesses:
r u kidding?..if u have these n think somethin is wrong, check your other components n accesories

Similar Products Used:
monitor audio b2-cheap budget speakers, well worth their money but pales very much in comparison to the dyns in every aspect

Price Paid:  $750.00 from A hi fi dealer in Ox

Summary:
I am a lover of chamber music and I have a reasonable quality Arcam CD unit coupled with a really ancient Philips Black Tulip amp and pre amp which I cannot better with modern equipment under £1000. I took this kit to the shop with my old mission 500 speakers and we changed everything - cables, leads, CD player, amp, stands, the lot. Not until the guy said, how about some better speakers did I hear any significant transformation. Suddenly, everything was ten times more alive. The only other power on earth so great is Alfred Brendel.

Strengths:
almost savage clarity detects every twang of the strings, every movement of the cellist's feet, every resonance in the piano whether played or not - these are not "sweet" speakers that blur the sound - you have to be listening

Weaknesses:
fairly useless for boring ambient sound and quite challenging when the performance is mundane - they show the difference between Brendel and the rest

Similar Products Used:
always Mission in the past, admittedly cheaper ones

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Dynaudio Audience 52 is the replacement of Audience 50. Many say that, Audience 52 sounds as good as Contour 1.3 Mkii or Contour 1.3 SE. On the surface, this statement is correct. However, when one really listens both speakers attentively, these two speakers are different tremendously. Contour 1.3 has better control and also smoother than Audience 52. In addition, the imaging also a little better than that of Audience 52. One will be able to listen to Contour for along period of time. However, considering the price of Contour, which nearly 3 times of Audience's, I will pick Audience over Contour if budget is a constraint.

Strengths:
Good price for the quality!!

Weaknesses:
Sound kind of rough if compared to Contour line's

Similar Products Used:
Contour 1.3 SE

Price Paid:  $420.00 from audiogon

Summary:
I have these paired with a Rotel RB 991 amp, JVC cdp, NAD C160 pre and JPS ultraconductor cables. These are some of the sweetest sounding speakers I''ve ever heard. They may not have the ultra-liquid midrange of a few high-end speaks (read 5k+), but they get everything right, and if you feed them enough power they have plenty of quality bass (though not too low - but hey they''re monitors). They like quality electronics and JUICE from your amp. I have yet to try them for home theater but they''re sheer pleasure for 2 channel audio. They will be the last thing I upgrade, as it will cost a small fortune to better them. And btw, YOU CAN''T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, REVEALING SPEAKERS MAKE POORLY RECORDED MUSIC SOUND LIKE POORLY RECORDED MUSIC, AND THE GOOD STUFF SOUND LIKE YOU GOT INTO HEAVEN EARLY.

Strengths:
dynamics, balance, detail, accurate, wonderful on vocals, REVEALING.

Weaknesses:
Inefficient, forget about using this thing with ss or tube amps under 100 WPC. only as good as the signal you feed it (a universal rule with good speakers). REVEALING.

Similar Products Used:
Castle Acoustics Richmond - too laid back and polite. B&W CDM1NT - not impressed for the money, slightly laid back.

Price Paid:  $350.00 from one-year-old from a private owner

Summary:
When I first hook them up and slot in a good recording CD it was quite an experiance to remember. Given that I have listen to but not own similar price/range speakers, what I heard from the Audience 50 is sill quite stunning. I've got people who are just walking by, and who would be very happy just listening to the radio, telling me how so much better these speakers sound.

When I try them out with the radio tuner, I would say they sounded quite closed to, when listening to a normal recording CD with a good budget level pair of speakers, which was what I was using before the up-grade. I should also state that I do have very good reception.

Despite not having a very good listening environment, when an audiophile recording CD is played, the speakers can almost "disappear", you can nearly get soaked into the music and feel like you're part of that performance.

Enough said.

Set-up are :-

B&K Components Pro-5 and ST202 (Ten-year old pre and power amps), Denon DCD835, Imperials sand filled two feet stands. Kimber 4TC speaker cables and VDH D102 MkIII hybrid I/C and Sonic Silve Pink I/C. System is fully run-in.

Strengths:
Details, clarity. focus, controlled punch, soundstage and somemore details and clarity.

Weaknesses:
Have not have any so far