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We
listen
to glue
“I know exactly what goes into this,” says
Daniel Emonts.
He’s our lead acoustic engineer, and the
man behind our drivers. “I know all the
materials and everything. But there’s
magic behind it too, when you hear the
result.”
Daniel should know. In our R&D
department, they listen to everything.
Everything. Even glue. “We decided to
change the glue between the voice-coil
and the cone. We thought it would take
two or three months, but we ended up
taking a year measuring, recording and
listening,” he says. “I think 80 percent of
us could tell the difference between the
glues. And now that’s going to be part of
our R&D procedure. Listening to glue.”
We all listen. That’s how we make our
speakers. Sure, we measure stuff; we
have to. But the computers are just tools:
there’s so much more going on than just a
frequency curve.
Contour has all new drivers. The only one
we aren’t changing is the Esotar
2
tweeter,
which you can nd on all our high-end
speakers, and which – no matter how old
it gets – is still a mighty tough act to follow.
New drivers means new crossovers,
which means new cabinets, which means
every component affects every other
component, which means ... listening.
We make everything for the sound – not
for the data.
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