The Dynaudio name has always been synonymous with high-quality, high-performance drivers just like those used in the S5.4. According to the white paper on these speakers, the neodymium magnets, formed aluminium voice coils and stiff magnesium silicate polymer (MSP) cone membranes of the S5.4’s two 20cm woofers, demand a solid foundation to deliver maximum dynamics and an ideal impulse response. Thus, a solid metal plate, fused to the wooden cabinet by a resonance-absorbing damping panel, reinforces the front of the loudspeaker. This highly rigid construction provides an ideal foundation for the highly resolving 15cm MSP midrange driver, and the incredible new Esotar² tweeter (which is also used in the company’s more expensive Confidence line). The tweeter also has a pure aluminum voice coil and a neodymium magnet ring. The drivers are mounted onto a material that offers exceptional cooling. The high quality crossover components are also attached with a special heat-dissipating adhesive onto an aluminum plate, which is integrated into the cabinet’s backside. As a result, all components operate at an ideal and stable working temperature.
The cabinet is made from 20mm thick MDF with internal MDF bracing and bituminous damping panels. There is a large 100mm diameter vent which is trumpet shaped on both ends built into the rear of the cabinet and foam vent plugs are supplied to help control any bass anomalies caused by room restrictions. Grills are magnetically clamped on to an artistically contoured (pun intended) metal baffle, which is mounted on the front of the cabinet. Spikes are cleverly concealed within the base of the tower. In fact, they were concealed so well that for the first two days I listened to the speakers without them being properly coupled to the floor. A quick call to Dynaudio’s Mike Manousellis fixed that as he told me that the supplied hex wrench should be used to unscrew the spikes from out of the bottom of the speakers and into the floor.
Speaker connection is done via a set of rather tricky to use WBT binding posts that are designed for either spades or 4mm plugs. Thankfully the posts are located at the base of the cabinet so you don’t waste a lot of (expensive nowadays) speaker cables by having to run cables two or three feet up the back of the speaker to reach the binding posts. That was something I used to hate about my old Merlin VSMs.
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