Dynaudio Emit 30 floorstanding loudspeaker

REVIEW
Alan Sircom
Apr 05, 2022

It’s hard to look at the Emit 30’s limitations without looking at them through the filter of how little a pair of these loudspeakers cost. You aren’t buying a cabinet with a depth of finish that draws admiration from passing French polishers and furniture restorers, you aren’t buying a loudspeaker with a crossover network or drive units made from Platinum-coated Unobtainium (although what you get on the Emit 30 gets surprisingly close), and you aren’t paying for bearded Nordic artisans to assemble these speakers to your precise specifications. Yes, you can get all these things in a new loudspeaker for £1,300 per pair… if you have a time machine set to 1971. If you don’t have that time machine to hand, those limitations begin to look very nit-picky indeed.

There’s a phrase used in audio; the ‘mug’s eyeful’. It summons up images of products that look like a bargain, but any notions of quality quickly stop at the word ‘look’. The Dynaudio Emit 30 is the absolute opposite of a mug’s eyeful; it offers superb value coupled with outstanding performance. They are every millimetre a Dynaudio loudspeaker, with the family sound and a deep, pounding bass that matches perfectly with the rooms in which such a loudspeaker will live. It’s a sophisticated design that cuts few corners to achieve that low price. Not only is it a good speaker, the Dynaudio Emit 30 throws down a gauntlet to other brands; if Dynaudio can do something like the Emit 30, why the **** can’t you?

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Type: two-and-a-half way bass-reflex floorstanding loudspeaker
Drive units: 28mm soft-dome Cerotar tweeter, 140mm MSP mid/woofer, 140mm MSP woofer
Frequency Response: 44Hz–25kHz (±3dB)
Sensitivity: 87dB (2.83V/1m)
Impedance: 4Ω
IEC power handling: 180W
Crossover topology: 1st Order (tweeter)/2nd Order (mid‑woofer)
Crossover frequencies: 1kHz, 3.55kHz
Finish: Black, White, Walnut
Dimensions (W×H×D): 26.8 × 94.7 × 33.5cm (incl. grilles and feet)
Weight: 15.53kg
Price: £1,300 per pair