Description

Great music deserves faithful reproduction. To fully experience your music and immerse yourself in its beauty, you need an accurate reproduction system. A system that can recreate a recording without additions or omissions.

Achieving this is a challenge with traditional Hi-Fi systems. Most audio systems are simply not accurate to begin with, while the ones that are generally fail to take the room into account.

The 8c is accurate. It is measurably among the most accurate loudspeakers that exist. And the 8c transforms your listening room from a harmful influence into a useful extension, through a stack of technologies called RoomMatching.

• We’ve got you fully covered on frequency response.

  The 8c is a full-range speaker.

  Flat from 20 Hz – 20 kHz. No need for a separate sub-woofer.

• Stream your favourite music

  No external streaming devices needed. Stream your favourite music from ROON or Spotify directly to your 8c´s.

• Make the 8c sound like you want

  With the powerful and fully customizable onboard DSP, you can integrate your 8c’s into your listening room and then tweak the sound to your liking.

• Not afraid of your walls

  Let the speakers disappear and enjoy your music.

  Our speaker design allows you to place the 8c speakers directly against the wall without causing acoustic issues.

• We always improve your 8c´s

  No more hardware swapping. Through our software platform, Ascend, we continuously deliver over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates. Each update adds new features and functions to your 8c speakers

  Accurate

  The 8c represents our commitment to accuracy and clarity. With its constant directivity and full-range flat frequency response from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, music can now be experienced exactly as it was intended. Nothing is added, nothing left out.

  Experience truly accurate music reproduction. Hear truth in audio like never before.

  Adaptive

  Tune the system to the room, not the room to the system. 8c’s adapt to the room they are in and can be placed (very) close to room boundaries without losing performance.

  To achieve this, 8c’s combine a proprietary waveguide tweeter with an acoustic cardioid midrange, boundary-coupled bass drivers and active room matching. The result: superb acoustical reproduction in any room.

  All-In-One

  Besides drivers, the 8c’s small footprint presence holds high-end DACs, amps, subwoofers and a DSP. The system also comes with room matching and streaming capabilities out-of-the-box.

  All components match each other perfectly and together deliver a “big sound” from 20 Hz upwards, while keeping the signal-to-noise ratio very high.

  The 8c is more than just a loudspeaker. It is a unique acoustic
  concept, because its revolutionary design provides constant directivity from 100 Hz upwards. As a result, the 8c is above and beyond any other system in terms of neutrality

  Design

  From the smooth baffle to the solid oak cabinet, the 8c’s construction is designed to look as clean as it sounds.

  Solid Wood

  The 8c’s outer cabinet is crafted from 20 mm thick solid oak panels. Every oak panel is unique and therefore each 8c has its own unique appearance. During the manufacturing process, we match cabinet pairs, to ensure 8c’s of a pair have a similar look. However, no two 8c’s look exactly the same. We like our customers to be aware of this before buying.

  Internally, the 8c is made out of birch plywood. It is used to create the separate compartments for the drivers and to brace the cabinet, in order to increase the stiffness and strength of the cabinet. This results in an acoustically inert cabinet, which ensures that all you hear is the sound of the loudspeaker drivers.

  Solid wood is a living material that continuously changes over time. Under the influence of changes in temperature and humidity, the wood will expand and contract. Hairline cracks are normal with solid wood, and thus to be expected. However, the 8c’s cabinet construction is carefully studied and fine-tuned, in order to avoid breakage as the wood ages.

  Full Control

  8c’s are automatically discovered on your LAN by Ascend, the 8c’s companion app. Ascend will give you full control of settings like gain, distance to front and side walls, updates and many parametric filters. Internet connectivity is not required.

  The control interface is also available as a website that is hosted on the 8c’s themselves. This means that the 8c’s can be controlled on any network, from any computer/OS with a somewhat modern browser.

  Multi-room Streaming

  Besides balanced analogue or AES3 input, you are able to stream digital music directly to your 8c’s. Set up left and right positions using your mobile device and the rest is done automatically.

  Within your LAN, 8c’s can be grouped into multiple zones. Perfectly synchronized music can then be played effortlessly in those zones.

  Firmware Updates

  Firmware updates are pushed out by Dutch & Dutch up to four times per year. Each update adds new features to your 8c’s overnight and keep your 8c’s up-to-date with industry standards and trends.

  By default 8c’s do not install new updates. Instead they give you the power to manually control the firmware version your 8c’s are running. Should you choose to update to a new firmware version, the 8c will automatically download and install any version you select.

  8c Specifications

  DRIVERS	LF: 8″ ALUMINIUM CONE (2x) MF: 8″ ALUMINIUM CONE HF: 1″ ALUMINIUM / MAGNESIUM ALLOW DOME
  CROSSOVERS	100 HZ & 1250 HZ, 4TH ORDER LINKWITZ-RILEY, LINEAR PHASE
  ENCLOSURE TYPE	LF: SEALED MF: ACOUSTIC CARDIOID
  MAX LINEAR SPL @ 1M	106 DB CONTINUOUS FROM 35 HZ UPWARDS*
  AMPLIFIER POWER	LF: 500 W MF: 250 W HF: 250 W
  AMPLIFIER TYPE	CLASS D, POWER FACTOR CORRECTION, HYBRID COOLING
  MAINS INPUT VOLTAGE	110V – 230V AC, 50 – 60 HZ
  DIMENSIONS (H X W X D)	485 X 270 X 380 MM (19 X 10.5 X 15 IN)
  WEIGHT	26 KG (57 LBS)
  CABINET CONSTRUCTION:	SIDE AND TOP PANELS: 19 MM SOLID OAK WOOD INTERNAL CONS TRUCTION: 18MM BIRCH PLYWOOD OUTER BAFFLE: INJECTION MOULDED ABS, DAMPED
  ANALOG INPUT	BALANCED AUDIO OVER XLR SENSITIVITY SWITCH: +4 DBU / -10 DBV PEAK INPUT LEVEL: +24 DBU (+4 DBU SETTING)
  ANALOG OUTPUT	DSP CONTROLLED OUTPUT FOR ACTIVE SUBWOOFER
  DIGITAL INPUT	AES3 OVER XLR LEFT / RIGHT / MONO CHANNEL SWITCH
  DIGITAL OUTPUT	AES3 LOOP THROUGH OVER XLR
  NETWORKING	ETHERNET OVER RJ45
  PROTECTION FUNCTIONS	THERMAL DC / CLIPPING