Dynaudio Legend Bookshelf Speakers

Limited product is available to pre-order with an ETA of late May.

Introducing Legend
Dynaudio Legend is the benchmark for luxury bookshelf speakers.

It’s handmade at Dynaudio’s factory in Skanderborg, using furniture-grade materials and artisanal skills. Every pair is unique thanks to its natural rosewood finish.

Unlike the speakers in Dynaudio’s Heritage Collection, Legend is not a limited-edition product.

It’s versatile (a true bookshelf speaker that can also be placed with its woofer on top, and even placed on its side). It’s packed with heritage (taking major cues from past Dynaudio greats, including Compound and the mighty Consequence). And it gives reference-quality sound (its components are literally the same as the ones you’ll find in some of the world’s most influential, award-winning recording studios).

Legend is built to last; a labour of love. It’s a speaker for the ages.

Natural wood
The Legend speakers are covered in a natural rosewood veneer. Since it isn’t an engineered finish, there will be variations in grain or colour from what are seen in photos and videos.

Once Dynaudio have cut the FSC®-certified veneer panels in the factory, they take great care to select and match them by eye-making sure each pair of speakers is consistent, blemish-free and full of character. But they don’t all look the same, as many mass-produced products do.

The Jatoba corners, too, are real wood-married to the sides and front in a painstaking process that requires incredible patience, skill and finesse.
In fact, most of a Legend speaker’s assembly time is spent on making the cabinet absolutely perfect.

A speaker with style
Dynaudio Legend is unashamedly retro. It calls back directly to some of the company’s most revered products – including 1986’s Compound series and 1984’s mighty Consequence speakers. Keen-eyed design enthusiasts will notice the same curved, hand-crafted corner details (an extremely tricky process to master, even for skilled craftspeople), the striking finish, the visible screws and the rock-solid build quality.

Each speaker is made of sturdy, internally braced MDF with a unique natural rosewood veneer. The panels are selected and matched by eye, and assembled by hand – which makes every pair one of a kind. There’s no cap on the production run, but each matched pair that rolls off the line is limited to ‘one of one’.

Top-tier components
Dynaudio Legend is full of the company’s most advanced acoustic technology. Its 28mm soft-dome Esotar 3 tweeter (with its Hexis inner dome) handles the high frequencies – and is Dynaudio’s best high-frequency driver yet. Esotar 3 also appears on the company’s Confidence flagship speakers, and its reference-level M-series professional studio main monitors.

Underneath it (or above it, depending on how the listener wants to position the speaker) is a reference-quality 15cm mid/bass driver that’s backed by a bespoke strontium carbonite ceramic magnet system. The diaphragm is made from Dynaudio’s proprietary MSP (magnesium silicate polymer) material – which provides exactly the right combination of lightness, stiffness and damping to reproduce low- and midrange frequencies with the kind of precision and punch you’d expect from a much larger driver.
The cascaded first-order crossover is as simple and elegant as Dynaudio’s engineers could make it. It uses air-coils along with high-quality Duelund capacitors, all tuned for performance and precision.

The dual-flared bass port is derived from the one found in the flagship Confidence 20 standmounter, while the terminal plates use the same WBT NextGen connectors you’ll find on Dynaudio’s award-winning Confidence, Contour 20 Black Edition and Contour i speakers.