This is a review and detailed measurements of the Dynaudio Emit M10 bookshelf, 2-way ported speaker. It was kindly purchased by a member and drop shipped to me. The one I have is open-box sample. New, they cost US $800 and come in both white and black.
The enclosure is fine but I am not sure it is any better than cheaper speakers:
The speaker terminals felt a bit cheap to me as well:
Measurements that you are about to see were performed using the Klippel Near-field Scanner (NFS). This is a robotic measurement system that analyzes the speaker all around and is able (using advanced mathematics and dual scan) to subtract room reflections (so where I measure it doesn't matter). It also measures the speaker at close distance ("near-field") which sharply reduces the impact of room noise. Both of these factors enable testing in ordinary rooms yet results that can be more accurate than an anechoic chamber. In a nutshell, the measurements show the actual sound coming out of the speaker independent of the room.
I performed over 1000 measurement which resulted in error rate of around 1%.
Measurement temperature was 60 degrees. Speaker was kept at 72 degrees prior to testing.
Reference axis was center of the tweeter. I tested it without the grill.
Measurements are compliant with latest speaker research into what can predict the speaker preference and is standardized in CEA/CTA-2034 ANSI specifications. Likewise listening tests are performed per research that shows mono listening is much more revealing of differences between speakers than stereo or multichannel.
Dynaudio Emit M10 Measurements
Acoustic measurements can be grouped in a way that can be perceptually analyzed to determine how good a speaker is and how it can be used in a room. This so called spinorama shows us just about everything we need to know about the speaker with respect to tonality and some flaws:
Looks like they went after a modest version of "showroom sound" with slightly boosted upper bass and treble and recessed mids. Off-axis response shows more of this:
Putting these together we get:
From my own preference, I like to see speakers get 100 Hz to 3 kHz right and this is somewhat opposite of that.
Company advertises first order crossover and it shows in low attenuation of the woofer resonance:
They have done an excellent job however in keeping the port resonance pretty low and below crossover region as to reduce its effect.
I was impressed with the low distortion of this speaker:
The mid-range to tweeter is headphone level of distortion at 86 dBSPL which is impressive for a speaker.
Here it is as absolute (now at both levels):
They advertise an impedance of 6 ohm and that is true:
Edit: forgot the directivity plots in the original review:
Dynaudio Emit M10 Listening Tests
My impression of the M10 was that it was bright. I tried to develop an EQ to fill in the wholes and pull down the highs but after 15 minutes, I gave up. It continues to sound bright making some of my reference clips unlistenable. I *think* this may be due to lack of deep bass which is screwing up the balance.
Dynamic capability was superb. Despite being a small speaker, it could play very loud with no hint of bottoming out.
Conclusion
Objectively the Emit M10 deviates from targets we have. The deviation is not huge though but what is there had me stomped in listening tests. As I noted above, I usually expect bookshelf speakers to produce a good experience stand-alone and these come short. The overall tonality is that of brightness but not nastiness. I know, this is not making much sense. But this is all I have for you.
You have the data, you decide.
I wouldn't buy this speaker for myself as there are cheaper speakers with much more balanced tonality. So can't recommend the Emit M10.
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As always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. are welcome.
Appreciate any donations using: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-to-support-audio-science-review.8150/
The enclosure is fine but I am not sure it is any better than cheaper speakers:
The speaker terminals felt a bit cheap to me as well:
Measurements that you are about to see were performed using the Klippel Near-field Scanner (NFS). This is a robotic measurement system that analyzes the speaker all around and is able (using advanced mathematics and dual scan) to subtract room reflections (so where I measure it doesn't matter). It also measures the speaker at close distance ("near-field") which sharply reduces the impact of room noise. Both of these factors enable testing in ordinary rooms yet results that can be more accurate than an anechoic chamber. In a nutshell, the measurements show the actual sound coming out of the speaker independent of the room.
I performed over 1000 measurement which resulted in error rate of around 1%.
Measurement temperature was 60 degrees. Speaker was kept at 72 degrees prior to testing.
Reference axis was center of the tweeter. I tested it without the grill.
Measurements are compliant with latest speaker research into what can predict the speaker preference and is standardized in CEA/CTA-2034 ANSI specifications. Likewise listening tests are performed per research that shows mono listening is much more revealing of differences between speakers than stereo or multichannel.
Dynaudio Emit M10 Measurements
Acoustic measurements can be grouped in a way that can be perceptually analyzed to determine how good a speaker is and how it can be used in a room. This so called spinorama shows us just about everything we need to know about the speaker with respect to tonality and some flaws:
Looks like they went after a modest version of "showroom sound" with slightly boosted upper bass and treble and recessed mids. Off-axis response shows more of this:
Putting these together we get:
From my own preference, I like to see speakers get 100 Hz to 3 kHz right and this is somewhat opposite of that.
Company advertises first order crossover and it shows in low attenuation of the woofer resonance:
They have done an excellent job however in keeping the port resonance pretty low and below crossover region as to reduce its effect.
I was impressed with the low distortion of this speaker:
The mid-range to tweeter is headphone level of distortion at 86 dBSPL which is impressive for a speaker.
Here it is as absolute (now at both levels):
They advertise an impedance of 6 ohm and that is true:
Edit: forgot the directivity plots in the original review:
Dynaudio Emit M10 Listening Tests
My impression of the M10 was that it was bright. I tried to develop an EQ to fill in the wholes and pull down the highs but after 15 minutes, I gave up. It continues to sound bright making some of my reference clips unlistenable. I *think* this may be due to lack of deep bass which is screwing up the balance.
Dynamic capability was superb. Despite being a small speaker, it could play very loud with no hint of bottoming out.
Conclusion
Objectively the Emit M10 deviates from targets we have. The deviation is not huge though but what is there had me stomped in listening tests. As I noted above, I usually expect bookshelf speakers to produce a good experience stand-alone and these come short. The overall tonality is that of brightness but not nastiness. I know, this is not making much sense. But this is all I have for you.
You have the data, you decide.I wouldn't buy this speaker for myself as there are cheaper speakers with much more balanced tonality. So can't recommend the Emit M10.
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As always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. are welcome.
Appreciate any donations using: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-to-support-audio-science-review.8150/
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