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Dynaudio C4 vs Contour 60
Hi everyone. I own a pair of Contour 60 but I don't like them in any way. In fact, I prefer my old Contour 3.3. I am thinking of selling the Contour 60 to buy a pair of Confidence C4. Does anyone know both speakers well and how they compare?
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The C4 are absolutely top shelf, listen all year, O fatigue at all. Well worth a buy. Their amazing. search reviews, nothing but stellar talk. The best speaker I’ve ever heard were Dynaudio s If u have the coin for C-4’s?,,,,,, make the buy, you won’t regret after the breakin! mine are a far cry from dynaudio, but after the break in, I’m happy. Read the review with dynaudio c4’s and the odyssey kismet amps. those Dynaudio should have 300WPC minimum RMS!! enjoy the hunt.! |
x tom6897 I
already sent my C60 back to Dynaudio in order to be revised 5 months
ago. They fixed them and now they sound slightly better as before but is
simply don't think we understand each other. They have now 500 hours
beak-in. Wen i listen to this speakers i always have the feeling the
sound is emitted by a wooden box. I just hear the sound coming out of
the box. I never get lost. No sound stage, wired timbre, blurry instrument positioning. For me just two big sound emitting
glossy boxes. I know that other C60 owners have different experience
with them. I drive them with a 400 watt Krell. To me the switch from the
Contour 3.3 to the Contour 60 was a complete failure. But wen i talk to
the Dynaudio guys we just to not understand each other. For me the
problem is very simple: the people at Dynaudio responsible for the C60
has a completely different ear as the people who was responsible for the
C 3.3. Two completely different worlds. The other problem could be that
the C60 just do not suit my space (6x12x4m full of books and carpets) but this is strange since all other speakers i have tried in this room soud well. x mtrot at home i have other 4 different kind of speakers: an old Martin Logan electrostatic, a Contour 1.3II, a Contour 3.3, two very small Genelec monitors and a pair of Grado PS 1000 headphones. All of them show different but respectable idea of sound reproduction. Timbre, sound stage bass definition are different in all of them but in a reasonable and rational way considering de different technologies implemented and different sizes. Not the same i can say about the C60. I know it sounds ridiculous to many of you, but i would say that the C60 sound stage has been shaped by someone not familiar to concert halls and the timbre by someone not familiar to pianos or clarinets and the rest by someone who only cares about overwhelming bass reproduction. I personally prefer the tiny Genelecs to the C60, with no doubt. Friends of mine, who have been used to my Contour 3.3, just have started to laugh wen listened to the C60. But this seems my very personal experience with the C60 and probably i choose friends only if the have the same ear i have. x arctikdeth Thanks for the info! But you never heard the C60 right? |
I was considering the C4 as they're coming down in price and the only knock I heat on them is a small listening window and the ability to overpower a room with bass. Sometimes a certain speaker no matter how great it is just isn't the right tool for the job, but you have all these owners that bought them because of the great discount that get upset, understandably, when someone dislikes them. Odds are if the c60 is too bbig for your room the c4 will also be, although more refined probably still too much bass. Why not look at a pair with dual 7" woofers? |
I think your issue is more complicated. I believe your room is not perfect for the speaker so I would suggest you move them to other room and try them. My self didn’t like my speakers for years but when I moved to other room I was shocked, complete different speaker and they sound amazing. What is your room size and layout ? |
I have a pair of C60 Mk II's that I have enjoyed for more than 15 years using several different amplifiers. They're not very efficient (86?) but your room is small enough that you should think about a "near field" setup. Put them in a weird corner nobody uses and listen like to a desktop system. I have done it with my C60's and the experience can be really good--and you don't have to blow the roof off to get loud. |