"The Ultimate Reference in This Price Category"
Plug them in, turn them up, and then invite a friend to hear them. We won't be surprised he your friend asks where the rest of the speakers are. That’s when you smile, shrug and invite them to sit down in the sweet-spot on your sofa. And then turn it up a bit more and enjoy the look of surprise.
Dynaudio has been creating speakers that perform out of all proportion to their physical size for over 40 years, and Evoke 10 is no exception. These are serious hi-fi speakers built for serious entertainment.
"Impressive Impact"
"I take a deep bow to Dynaudio, who have managed to make the new Evoke 10 the ultimate reference in this price category!" reports Werner Ero in his February 2019 review for the Netherland's Music Emotion magazine. Once properly broken-in there's an impressive impact that surprises you coming from such a small loudspeaker. The bass reaches remarkably deep, it is tight and has the physical impact of a floor standing loudspeaker without losing definition! Mids and highs are smooth and informative. Regardless of volume, there is no detectable distortion or compression."
"Honestly, I wouldn't have believed that the Danes could still surprise me after all these years. But that's exactly what happened," notes Germany's STEREO magazine. "Evoke 10 is sonorous, even slightly full-bodied, but superbly transparent."
Classic Dynaudio Heritage… With a Twist
Each speaker’s single 5.5" long-throw mid/bass driver is made from MSP (Magnesium Silicate Polymer), just like all Dynaudio speakers have used for decades. They use new surrounds to extend their throw, their frequency response and their low-frequency dynamics – all while maintaining stellar midrange performance.
The diaphragm is 0.4mm thin, which provides exactly the right combination of lightness, stiffness and damping to ensure optimum performance. It’s made of one piece (the dust-cap is part of the playing surface) and is bonded directly to the rigid glass-fiber voice-coil former directly under the Balance Ribs you’ll see around the center dome. That means the whole unit moves as one, in a predictable (and carefully tuned) way, for a performance that strikes the ideal balance between bass and midrange.
The 1.5" voice-coil itself is made from aluminum, making it extremely light. That means we can use more windings. More windings gives more control over the cone’s movement, which means more control over the sound – even at high volumes and high frequencies. It’s kept stable, centered and true by the Nomex spider (the circular spring assembly that stops the cone moving when it shouldn’t, and lets it move when it should).
And the whole assembly is driven by one of Dynaudio's new, powerful strontium carbonate Ferrite+ ceramic magnet systems.
Cerotar: A Brand-New Tweeter
Up top is the brand-new 1.1" Cerotar soft-dome tweeter. Dynaudio's engineers looked behind the curtain of the award-winning Special Forty and money-no-object Confidence tweeters and cherry-picked some key technologies to bring to Evoke. The headline-grabbing component is the Hexis – an ingenious inner dome that refines the airflow behind the playing surface to smooth-out its frequency response and eliminate unwanted resonances. The Cerotar, like the woofer, is powered by a powerful Ferrite+ ceramic magnet assembly.
Linking the drivers together is a high-grade second-order crossover that uses the Confidence’s design with different components.
Honest Danish Design
Evoke 10 is available in four beautiful finishes: Black High Gloss, White High Gloss, Walnut Wood and Blonde Wood. The shiny versions really are just that: new lacquering techniques have resulted in a sumptuous, almost glass-like finish. The wood versions use a tactile, open natural veneer for either a warm, dark tone or a light apricot look.
You might notice that you can’t see any mounting screws. Evoke has simple, clean trim rings that emphasize the cabinet’s finish as well as the moving parts of the drivers. The rings are one-piece molded, with the surface finish embedded in the molding process.
