Dynaudio Contour 60

david rossmann said:
Still breaking in. Tonal balance improved slightly. Today i tried to vary the positioning as much as possible. Tried to follow some indications and positioning techniques. Sound stage is still totally flat, blurry, dull. No way to hide the speakers. Simply crazy. Will continue to break in the speakers. If one day this speakers sound better as the contour 3.3 i will start to dedicate some time to alchemy.
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Just hang in there, David. This is the "rough spell" and it may get worse before it gets better. I would not start drawing any initial conclusions until you get past 300 hours and it may take 450 hours or so.
 
There is something wrong with either your system or your hearing. I own the 60’s and they have sounded very good since brand new with 4 different amplifiers.

david rossmann said:
Still breaking in. Tonal balance improved slightly. Today i tried to vary the positioning as much as possible. Tried to follow some indications and positioning techniques. Sound stage is still totally flat, blurry, dull. No way to hide the speakers. Simply crazy. Will continue to break in the speakers. If one day this speakers sound better as the contour 3.3 i will start to dedicate some time to alchemy.
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dznutz said:
There is something wrong with either your system or your hearing. I own the 60’s and they have sounded very good since brand new with 4 different amplifiers.
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That's interesting dznutz. I hope my hearing is not so bad. The fact that my previous setup (with the contour 3.3) was so much appreciated by most people visiting me at my home let's me think my hearing is not so bad.
The only thing i can say is that after roughly 150 hours of break in the C60 start to sound nicer as out of the box.
However the cymbals are far away from being so lifelike as with the C3.3, percussions are far away from being so punchy and close as with the C3.3, sound stage is still more blurry as with the C3.3. Cymbals are veiled, percussion sound 10 meters far away. Anyway much much better as during the first week. But i can start to listen to music again which is good.
Still i have to say that if with the used 1.200 euro Contours 3.3, which i bought two years ago, i had the impression to own a 15.000 Euro speaker, with the Contour 60 i have the impression to own a 1.200 Euro speaker. Brand new the the C60 sounded like a 300 Euro speaker. May your C60 have been beaked in for some reason by the manufacturer.
Anyway let's wait till i have the 300-400 hours of break in. The stupid thing is that it will take me a few months to reach the 300-400 hours. Many people told me it makes not sense to make break in at low volumes and i cannot let them play loud 24h a day. Why this speaker companies do not just rent a break-in hangar in order to deliver a ready-to-enjoy product?
 
I thought pointing the speakers at each other within a foot of each other and playing 1 box out of phase the spl would be tolerable? I have recently sold several pair of used speakers out of my house and what I found interesting was that after 30 minutes or so the speakers would sound great but before that, not so much. I leave my electronics on all the time so that wasn't it.
It's good to hear your new speakers are getting better with time, hopefully these guys are right and they fit your room as good as the last ones did.
 
This is a line I almost picked up. The contour 60’s were good for rock and played loud, but the new confidence line I just didn’t love. To be fair, I need some more demos as I only heard them 3 times, including Munich.

Hope you get the issues solved with your 60’s.


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FWIW...I've heard Dynaudio speakers several times paired with Moon gear and always came away very impressed.

Mike said:
This is a line I almost picked up. The contour 60’s were good for rock and played loud, but the new confidence line I just didn’t love. To be fair, I need some more demos as I only heard them 3 times, including Munich.

Hope you get the issues solved with your 60’s.


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Hi, i stopped to break in the speakers. In my family we all work from home so the music 12 or 24h/day is simply disturbing. I can listen maximum 1-2 hours every 2-3 days. If i'm lucky the C60 will be break-in within 3 years.
The most silly purchase of my life. I cannot understand how customers are willed to pay in order to torture their own ears for 400 hours.
The old Contour 3.3 still sounds much better as the C60. More natural, more controlled bass, brilliant treble, perfect mids, wonderful and huge sound-stage, easier to position, gentle with old recordings, minimal and discrete design.
Seriously thinking to sell the C60 away.
Thank you everybody for your help.
 
david rossmann said:
Hi, i stopped to break in the speakers. In my family we all work from home so the music 12 or 24h/day is simply disturbing. I can listen maximum 1-2 hours every 2-3 days. If i'm lucky the C60 will be break-in within 3 years.
The most silly purchase of my life. I cannot understand how customers are willed to pay in order to torture their own ears for 400 hours.
The old Contour 3.3 still sounds much better as the C60. More natural, more controlled bass, brilliant treble, perfect mids, wonderful and huge sound-stage, easier to position, gentle with old recordings, minimal and discrete design.
Seriously thinking to sell the C60 away.
Thank you everybody for your help.
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I wish you luck. I think you’ve mentally decided these aren’t the right speakers for you. Best to sell them and move on. May I suggest a pair of Salon 2’s or Studio 2’s in the same price range. The Revel tweeter is smoooooth. Just bring a big ass powerful amp and subs help them a lot.
 
I'm using ocean waves to break the speakers in at night. I have a dedicated listening room though, so I can close the door though. Ocean waves do not disturb anyone when played on a moderate levels. Just a thought.
 
I don't know the 3.3's so don't know what to say? Your logic makes sense, you liked the previous dane's so who wouldn't expect the newer model to be an improvement. Here's the catch, we get used to what our old speakers do/did better than the rest and often in the quest for sonic perfection companies engineer the personality out of the speakers.(not saying thats the case here). I, personally, gave up and got off the merry go round. picking speakers only to spend years and thousands on component matching, screw that. Buy used, compare prices, and when you find the pair you like either keep the used pair or sell them to finance a new pair in the finish you want. Over the last 5 years I went thru a half dozen full range floorstanders, getting to spend as much time as I wanted and i'm only out the gas and driving time after reselling them. I think it takes months to really get to know the sound of a pair of speakers, the rest of the time is inching them around the room while playing different tracks. Good luck brother.
 
Thanks to dynaudio contour 60 i stopped to listen to music. 500 hours break in time...that is totally insane. You have to be a fanatic and proud to be a fanatic to play that game. I'm not. I have little time to dedicate to music. This time is very precious. I just want to enjoy music. This glossy speakers are boomy too. Awful. For me dynaudio can close the production plant. I never, but never, will buy again a brand new speaker.
 
If they were purchased through a Dealer, and he is so unhappy that he is posting on a forum halfway around the world then Im sure he can convince his Dealer to take them back.
 
And do we know that the break-in was done as he has not acknowledged how many hours he has actually put on them only that he quit listening to them.
 
Indeed the first thing i did, as soon i discovered that the divine beauty of the contour 60 is unveiled only by a 500 hours torture, was to ask the dealer to take them back. For some complicated reasons they are not willed to take them back. Probably because this speakers are a B Stock selection (they are supposed to have a finish defect which however i wasn't able to discover).
Anyway, as stated previously they have now roughly 150 hours of break in. Most of this break in was done during the first two weeks but then my wife and my daughter told me to stop which is reasonable.
 
If your dealer didn’t take them back, can they at least break them in for you?
 
Did you demo these speakers in the store ahead of time? These speakers to me have big bass, good for rock and not much else.
 
Good point...the only problem is that the dealer is in sweden and i live in italy. I vould have to pay other 700 euro shipping cost. Moreover i think they will not do the job for free. If they only vould have told me in advance...
 
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