Esotec System 242 GT - Dynaudio 6.5"

[Hoodlum007 10+ year member]

Dynaudio are excellent sounding speakers, power hungry but very detailed sound quality.

 

[6spdcoupe 5,000+ posts]

Big misconception and confusion with power 'hungry' and power happy. Big difference especially when using it as advice to a potential buyer of the product.

They do like a fair amount of power, but to say need would be misinformative.

 

[smgreen20 10+ year member]

Dyns, power hungry????? I had the System 240 MKII and power hungry they aren't. If you use the supplied xover the tweet protection kicks in and you have to wait a minute or two at low volumes for it to reset. It's just a resistor that when it gets to hot it cuts back the power to the tweet as to not fry it.

If you go actively with them would be the best bet. For example: say you give the mid 100 wrms and its a 91dB s/n speaker then that means at the 100 wrms it would be at @ 111 dB, if you give it 200 wrms, which I don't recommend over 150 wrms, then you'd only see another 3 dB in gain for 114 dB which to me isn't worth it.

But as I've been posting a lot lately, power is much like sound..... It's all subjective.

Have you ever noticed how little power SQ comp cars actually have? 300-500 wrms on avg.

 

[srmd22 10+ year member]

I am glad to see the last 2 posts above ^^ I went ahead and had the Dyn's put in, and they sound fabulous. Upon first listen, at the shop, I thought they sounded a bit flat, but after a couple of hours driving around with them, I realized I was wrong. They are just really transparant and mellow, beautiful sound. I do have to turn the volume on my reciever higher to get the same perceived output, but the clarity is astounding, with no harshness at all. The folks at Sound & Motion are great. They are recommending I move my SW from behind the seat of my convertible to the floor of the passenger side, which I will probably do (ugh $$).

Here is a pic of my previous install from sound advice in Tampa:

 

[dtbrown 10+ year member]

Esotec dynaudio is probably some of the best sounding speakers you can get. Very natural sound and don't need a ton of power. 100w rms up is good. No if you're looking for a lot of volume the dynaudio are not for you. The dynaudio xover will protect the tweeters if volume goes to high. We just swapped out our dynaudio esotec for Digital Designs DDA-W components because wanted more volume they delivered the volume with very close SQ like the Dyn's.

But for SQ Dynaudio is probably one of the best.