Description
The Dutch & Dutch 8c is an innovative new active speaker handcrafted in the Netherlands. Fast becoming a top choice for mastering studios, the 8c uses a variety of new technologies that work together with the acoustics of your listening room to deliver an extremely natural, detailed sound. These will quite possibly be the best speakers you have ever heard, even compared with full systems costing four times the price.
Trusted by mastering engineers around the world
With its origins in mixing and mastering studios, the 8c is a full-range speaker with the kind of measurable accuracy required by recording and mastering professionals. Its revolutionary cabinet design provides the 8c with constant directivity from 100 Hz upwards and +/-0.5dB frequency response above 35Hz.
Form following function
The 8c’s world-class sound is a result of its proprietary waveguide tweeter, acoustic cardioid midrange, and rear-firing bass drivers. It’s visually stunning baffle design is the result of the configuration of those drivers. The waveguide tweeter, nestled in a concave depression in the baffle, is designed to minimize diffraction. The cardioid midrange driver reduces the rearward radiation of midrange sound, resulting in improved flexibility of loudspeaker placement in the room and even frequency response across a wide area. Additionally, the side vents produce a wavefront derived from the energy coming off the back of the midrange driver, canceling out energy that tends to bend around the cabinet corners, minimizing reflections.
Speakers that work with your room, not against it
While other speaker designs are plagued by poor bass time alignment, the 8c uses Active Room Matching and Boundary Coupled Bass DSP to take advantage of the walls of your room rather than trying to compensate for them. This gives you the freedom to place speakers nearer to your walls than conventional speakers