AXPONA 2025

Familiar faces, new form.

Before me stood a pair of stand-mounted Dynaudio Confidence 20 active loudspeakers, complete with DSP ($24,000/pair). Larger, higher-quality cousins to the Dynaudio Focus 10 active loudspeakers I reviewed a little over two years ago, the Confidence 20s sounded notably more refined and more convincing. That tracks: Each driver is powered by its own dedicated amplifier. While both models share the same DSP room correction protocol, nearly everything else is an upgrade.

Leonard Cohen’s “Nevermind” delivered exactly what I’d hoped for: grounded depth, commanding presence, and bass that was perfectly pitched and proportioned. With an assist from Transparent cabling, and fed by a $25,000 MOON 891 network player/preamplifier that I raved about a few months back, the Dynaudio Confidence 20s sounded great. Proof that when design and execution align, the results speak volumes.