Dynaudio Emit 50
Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
91/100
Build Quality
88/100
Value for Money
89/100
The Dynaudio Emit 50 delivers full-range authority with a natural, detail-rich balance, pairing generous low-end scale with precise three-way coherence. Audiophilepure highlights its exceptional soundstage and imaging, while Alpha Audio notes the substantial energy of this serious floorstander. It is an involving choice for spacious stereo and home-cinema systems.
Pros
Natural, information-rich presentation with exceptional soundstage and imaging.
Powerful, rich three-way performance with substantial bass energy and large-scale dynamics.
Responds audibly to room treatment and DSP, while remaining capable in less-than-ideal setups.
Cons
Its considerable bass energy and rear-ported design require careful placement; smaller rooms may be better served by a smaller model.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 91/100
Reviews portray the Emit 50 as a natural, highly informative and satisfying large-scale three-way speaker. Its expansive presentation and considerable low-frequency energy make it especially suited to medium or larger rooms, while careful placement remains important.
Bass
93/100
Alpha Audio found that the large Emit 50 can build up a great deal of energy, supporting its description as a full-scale, rich-sounding floorstander. That authority can be excessive in a smaller listening room, where the reviewer recommends considering the smaller model instead.
Mid
89/100
Alpha Audio characterises the speaker as delivering the elements needed for precise reproduction, while Audiophilepure calls its overall balance natural and easy to enjoy. Direct discussion of vocal tone and midband texture is limited, but the available comments suggest a coherent, unfatiguing presentation.
Treble
86/100
Audiophilepure reports that the Emit 50 reveals an impressive amount of information without compromising its natural, easy-going character. The reviews provide little direct listening detail on treble extension, brightness, or fine high-frequency texture.
Soundstage Imaging
93/100
Audiophilepure gives especially strong praise to the Emit 50's soundstage and imaging, saying these qualities make familiar recordings rewarding to revisit. This points to a spacious, involving presentation with convincing placement of musical elements.
Dynamics
91/100
The speaker's ability to build substantial room energy suggests convincing large-scale expression and headroom. Audiophilepure also says it performs admirably in less-than-ideal conditions, although Alpha Audio's small-room warning means its power needs an appropriate space.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
88/100
Alpha Audio describes a substantial three-way cabinet with 18mm MDF construction, polyester damping, neat laminate finishing and twin rear ports. It also notes the use of Dynaudio's Cerotar tweeter, MSP midrange and woofers, plus a carefully specified hybrid crossover; long-term durability is not discussed.
Value for Money
89/100
At the reviewed $2,249 price, Audiophilepure considers the Emit 50 a worthwhile investment rather than a budget product, particularly for a quality stereo system or as the basis of home cinema. The review also calls it one of the writer's favourite options in its price range, though it does not name direct competitors.
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Specifications
- Status
- Current
- Segment
- Home
- Series
- Emit
- Type
- Floorstand
- Sensitivity (dB @ 2.83V/1m)
- 86
- IEC Long Term Power Handling (W)
- 240
- Rated Impedance (Ohm)
- 4
- Lower Cutoff (Hz @ +/- 3 dB)
- 33
- Upper Cutoff (kHz @ +/- 3 dB)
- 25
- Lower Cutoff (Hz @ -6 dB)
- 28
- Upper Cutoff (kHz @ -6 dB)
- 35
- Box Principle
- Bass reflex rear double flared port
- Crossover
- 3-way
- Crossover Frequency (Hz)
- 540/4400 HZ
- Crossover Topology
- 1st order tweeter / 2nd order midrange / 4th order woofer
- Tweeter
- 28mm Cerotar soft dome with Hexis
- Midrange
- 15 cm MSP
- Woofer
- 2x 18 cm MSP
- Weight kg
- 26
- Weight lbs
- 57.3
- Width mm
- 205
- Height mm
- 1140
- Depth mm
- 312
- Width inches
- 8 1/8
- Height inches
- 44 7/8
- Depth inches
- 12 2/8
- Width mm incl. feet/grill/stand
- 302
- Height mm incl. feet/grill/stand
- 1187
- Depth mm incl. feet/grill/stand
- 376
- Width inches incl. feet/grill/stand
- 11 7/8
- Height inches incl. feet/grill/stand
- 46 6/8
- Depth inches incl. feet/grill/stand
- 14 6/8
- Packaged Width mm
- 1300
- Packaged Height mm
- 362
- Packaged Depth mm
- 494
- Packaged weight kg
- 32
- Speakers per packaged box
- 1
- Grille
- Black
Manufacturer's Description — Dynaudio
Large floorstanders for music and movies
Emit 50
Whether you want to build a powerful stereo system, or really give your multi-channel films and music Blu-rays a boost in a medium to large room, Emit 50 has you covered.
A pair of big floor-standing speakers makes a statement. With Emit 50, you can make that statement without giving your bank manager a heart attack. Its audiophile-grade technology and tuning deliver room-filling hi-fi performance at a price-level open even to those taking their first steps into high-end sound.
Emit 50 delivers a level of power and finesse that, honestly, you could pay double the price for elsewhere. But why would you? Its twin 18cm woofers, 15cm midrange driver and 28mm soft-dome Cerotar tweeter are each dedicated to producing the clearest possible performance – at true cinema-level volume.
High-performance woofers
Let’s give you the bottom line: Emit 50’s woofers dig deep. The two 18cm units (the same type used in Emit 20) use trickle-down technology from our high-end Evoke, Contour i and Confidence families to deliver astonishing low-frequency performance, well above the previous Emit range.
It means the speaker can dig truly deep into the bass (-3dB at 33Hz, which equals Contour 60i and Confidence 60, if you’re into numbers), but allows us to keep the cabinet at a size that still fits your living room.
The one-piece cones are made from our own in-house-formulated MSP (Magnesium Silicate Polymer) material, complete with integrated dust-cap. Making drivers from one piece of material, rather than sticking on a separate piece, gives the playing surface a much better connection to the voice-coil behind it. And that means better control over their movement: less unwanted distortion and resonance, and more fine detail – even in the lowest notes.
Unlike the other speakers in the series, Emit 50’s woofers use copper voice-coils. That’s because they don’t need to be quite as sprightly as they would when also handling midrange duties (as on Emit 20). So, we’ve used heavier copper for more outright punch. That’s intensified by the dual-stacked magnet system, which is optimised to direct its energy directly into the voice-coil.
Dedicated midrange driver
The midrange driver is a different beast.
Exclusive to Emit 50, it’s derived from the version we used in the Evoke range – which, in turn, came directly from the high-end Contour series. It has a powerful ferrite ceramic magnet, a short version of the 38mm-diameter aluminium voice-coil (specifically optimised for midrange performance), and a lightweight surround. It’s designed for speed and precision: exactly what you need for reproducing nuanced vocals, orchestral strings and wind instruments, and more.
Sweet high frequencies
Emit 50’s Cerotar tweeter is the same as you’ll find in the Evoke family. It’s a ground-up design that uses key technologies developed for our award-winning Special Forty anniversary speaker, plus Confidence and even our Core range of professional studio reference monitors. Our engineers are really proud of it, and rightly so.
Cerotar’s 28mm coated fabric soft-dome diaphragm sits on top of another Dynaudio innovation: the Hexis. This ingenious dimpled inner dome is placed close enough behind the fabric to stop unwanted resonance reflecting back to the rear of the playing surface. It keeps the frequency response smooth for cleaner, sweeter treble – and more detail in your music.
The tweeter is powered by a powerful Ferrite+ strontium carbonate ceramic magnet to give it more sensitivity. That translates to your ears as more authentic performance – you hear what you’re meant to hear; nothing more, nothing less. And because it’s so natural, it also reduces fatigue – so you can listen for longer.
Clever crossover design
Emit 50’s crossover is a hybrid design.
There’s a traditional Dynaudio first-order circuit for the tweeter, a second-order design for the midrange driver, and a fourth-order topology for the woofers. Sure, we could’ve just created a single design to cover them all – but that would mean compromising performance, which is something our engineers simply won’t do.
Authentic Danish design
The cabinets have been designed and tuned in-house in Denmark. They’re constructed from 18mm MDF, and damped with specially selected polyester material (yes, that’s tuned too) to make sure the drivers have the most stable platform possible.
You can choose from three custom laminate finishes (Black, White, and Walnut), and black magnetic grilles come as standard. So if you want your speakers to stand out or blend in (or both), you can mix and match. It’s something you might want to think about if you’re creating a multi-channel system from scratch using Emit 50 alongside other speakers in the range.
Whether you’re starting a brand-new high-end system from scratch, or upgrading from another system, Emit 50’s combination of power and finesse will bring a new level of performance to your music and films.
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