Dynaudio - Telling The Whole Truth
A company like Dynaudio doesn't emerge fully-formed, rather it takes a clear and enduring philosophy to guide it to fruition. Back in 1977 Dynaudio's founder, Wilfried Ehrenholz; decided that the off-the-shelf speakers he'd been listening to weren't telling the whole truth. After unsuccessfully hunting high and low for drivers that could tell said truth as he desired, he started designing and making his own. The rest is history. As one of the few companies still developing its speakers in-house; Dynaudio drivers across the world have become known as the reference standard.

Esotec Series - The Heart Of Audio
The heart of Dynaudio's incredible performance has always been the high quality drivers the company has developed for its audiophile grade loudspeaker products, whether optimized for the Dynaudio Home Systems, Professional or Automotive product ranges. The Esotec range reflects the technologically advanced driver acumen that only a specialist manufacturer as dedicated and diverse as Dynaudio would be capable of achieving.

Design Ideologies
Dynaudio’s ongoing research and development projects, which spawned the company’s latest professional studio monitors and the advanced premium factory sound systems for the automotive industry; have bleed over into the development of the Esotec range. Employing the latest materials and technologies from the Esotec+ driver generation developed for the recent Dynaudio Focus home systems, the Esotec automotive speakers feature the latest and greatest technology and materials.

To accommodate customised multi-driver installations, all Esotec car loudspeaker drivers are available individually as separate components. The knowledge and experience gained under the constraints in developing the Dynaudio factory premium sound systems has tremendously benefited the evolution of the company’s aftermarket sound systems, especially regarding tuning the crossovers and optimizing the drivers’ parameters for the demands of a typical in-car installation.

The primary objective in the development of the Esotec range was to combine the qualitative performance attributes and off-axis response of the company’s home audio loudspeakers, and the excellent near field response and refinement of the company’s dedicated studio monitor products; into a range of products that would be ideally suited to deliver optimised audiophile grade sound in the vehicle by addressing the obstacles particularly pertaining to the acoustics of car.

Design Features
The Esotec System 342 component set combines one pair of MD-102 soft dome tweeters, one pair of MD-142 soft dome midranges, a pair of MW 162 woofers and a pair of X 362 crossover networks in an incredibly refined and ultimately powerful three-way component system. All mounting hardware and grilles are included.

The Esotec mobile loudspeakers are perfectly complemented by the various dedicated crossover offerings. The Esotec component systems crossovers are truly competition grade, using the highest quality components throughout. Custom produced, hand-selected, top quality polypropylene capacitors and custom wound, high-grade air-core inductors are utilised, as are impedance correction networks and tweeter protection circuits and independent tweeter adjustment levels for added system set-up flexibility.

Mated to the advanced technology Esotec car series loudspeakers, the net result is a system that delivers authentic Dynaudio sound quality with a neutral tonal balance, incredible imaging and sound-staging capabilities, unsurpassed dynamics and complete transparency.

The MD 102 Tweeter
The new Esotec MD 102 tweeter is a soft-dome design as characteristic of Dynaudio. The fine soft dome features a special coating to facilitate an extended high frequency response free of distortion. The compact, shallow depth MD 102 tweeter features a 28 mm diameter surface area that is approximately 60% greater than that of conventional car audio tweeters. The optimized dome geometry provides greatly improved dispersion characteristics, enabling the MD 102 tweeter to offer exceptional performance even when mounted off of the listening axis. The dome coating serves to eliminate any high frequency break-ups, while providing improved damping. To eliminate high frequency distortions caused by reflections from inside the structure, the MD 102 tweeter rear chamber is also sealed and acoustically damped to eliminate high frequency distortion, which could be caused by back-wave reflections, while ferrofluid cooling adds damping and additional
power handling.

The extremely smooth and incredibly detailed high frequency reproduction characteristic of the Dynaudio sound is ensured by the all-new Esotec softdome
tweeter, which features the latest Dynaudio technological innovations. For the most authentic high-frequency reproduction – powerful Neodymium – one of the most efficient but also most expensive magnetic materials for loudspeaker construction is used in the tweeter magnet systems.

The soft-dome tweeter design topology allows unrestricted dynamics and a linear frequency response with extremely low distortion. The MD 102 features an aluminum voice coil, another Dynaudio hallmark, which has been updated and improved via an increased coil height with additional windings to allow an increased range of linear excursion within the magnetic field. Furthermore, as a result of the low moving mass of the new voice coil, a higher maximum output level and increased dynamics are achieved, while the frequency range has been expanded, thus allowing a better integration with the upper midrange frequencies to deliver a more natural sound with an open and detailed, and incredibly transparent reproduction of the high frequencies.

The MW 162 GT Midrange
The new Esotec MW 162 GT is a smaller version of the MW 162 midrange driver, also a 6.5″ diameter design with a 75 mm voice coil, housed in a slightly more compact yet rigid stamped steel basket to better allow it to fit into a wider range of drop-in factory automobile loudspeaker locations.

This is especially helpful in minimizing labor by eliminating otherwise necessary vehicle modifications during installations where space is limited. The Esotec mobile loudspeaker woofers all use glued and thermally bonded styrene butadiene rubber surrounds, which ensure excellent control and reliability, while providing added durability against the elements.

For more dynamic power delivery in the bass region, the Esotec midrange drivers employ Dynaudio’s traditional double magnet motor system while featuring new, upgraded high-density ultra-compressed ferrite magnets. The new magnet systems provide an extremely controlled and incredibly precise movement of the voice coil. The result is improved dynamics and greater fidelity to the original music signal. Dramatic musical passages are thus reproduced accurately and without compromise.
And with increased cone excursion, even the most powerful transients are delivered without compression.

The MW 162 Midrange
Esotec MW 162 mid/woofer is a medium sized 6.5″ diameter driver that combines a clear and detailed midrange with a strong and powerful bass response.

Another characteristic typical of Dynaudio drivers and carried through in the new Esotec mobile series woofers is the diffraction-optimized shape of the MSP cone’s characteristic curvature, which further improves imaging so that even at short listening distances as typical of most in-car installations a realistic, true three-dimensional sound-stage can be enjoyed. Molding the diaphragm and dust cap into a one-piece flat-membrane results in a controlled roll off and high dynamic range. In relation to the total cone surface area, the 75 mm voice coil is exceptionally large in diameter, allowing a most precise conversion of the amplifier’s signal to music. The result is un-compromised, direct music enjoyment.

All of the Esotec MW (mid/woofer) model variants employ Dynaudio’s customary oversized aluminium voice coil, which feature an uncharacteristically large diameter coil wound on a strong and temperature stable former to drive the geometrically optimized rigid MSP cone diaphragm. The Esotec midranges have all been further upgraded with a brand-new suspension. The new spider allows greater mechanical movement of the cone, increasing excursion while allowing a higher maximum SPL and improved low bass performance.

The use of Dynaudio’s large diameter aluminium voice coils increases thermal handling capabilities tremendously, allowing the drivers to operate within an ideal temperature range, even at high continuous power levels and during powerful music transients. Dynamic impulses are reproduced precisely and without distortion, even at high volume levels, while impressive sound quality and high power handling capability are achieved.

The X 362 Crossover
The new Esotec X 362 crossover is a three-way competition grade, audiophile quality passive crossover designed to accommodate four of the new Esotec woofers, the MW 162, MW 162 GT, MW 172 and MW 182 models in combination with the Esotec MD 102 tweeter and Esotec MD 142 soft dome midrange.

The X 362 Crossover is also included in two packaged Esotec three-way component systems. There is a three-position level control for both the tweeter and midrange, which allow one to adjust the sound according to driver position and or personal preference. Regardless of the driver complement chosen, the result is an incredibly linear frequency response with an extremely detailed midrange reproduction and excellent dispersion.

Essentially a three way variant of the X 252 model, the Esotec X 362 utilizes
a first order crossover slope for the woofer and midrange, and a second order slope for the tweeter. The phase correct, shallow slope Esotec crossover networks utilize the highest quality components selected and matched to extremely tight tolerances and offer impedance correction for the woofer and integrated protection circuits for the tweeter while enabling a linear frequency response and improved dispersion from the drivers, allowing such to be perfectly integrated into any vehicle.

Electrical Specifications
– Nominal configuration: three-way 6.5” & 4″ & 1” passive component set
– Continuous power handling: 120 Watts
– Maximum power handling: 1000 Watts
– Voice coil diameter: 75 mm
– Frequency response: 40 Hz – 30000 Hz
– Sensitivity: 90 dB
– DC resistance (Re): 3.1 Ohms
– Resonant frequency (Fs): 55 Hz
– Xmax: +/- 6 mm
– Compliance (Vas): 9.8 l
– Total Q (Qts): 0.45
– Mechanical Q (Qms): 2.2
– Electrical Q (Qes): 0.57

Physical Specifications
– Mounting diameter: 134 mm
– Mounting depth: 67 mm
– Weight: 1.2 kg

Documentation
– User manual

Important Disclaimers
Given the dynamic nature of electronics industries these days; below are listed some very important specifics you need to be aware of.

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