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It's about the best audio in your space.

The 8C

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.

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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.

Accurate music reproduction requires more than a thoroughly optimized speaker.
It requires a speaker that works together with the acoustics of the listening room.

Dutch & Dutch 8C AccuracyThe 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.

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

The 8C Studio

The big challenge in studio monitoring is translation. Making sure that your mix sounds the same outside of your studio as it does inside. For that to happen you need to hear your mix as it is, without anomalies coming from your monitor or your room’s acoustics.

The 8c Studio will give you exactly that, because it is not just an extremely accurate monitor, it also has RoomMatching. The 8c Studio works together with the acoustics of your room, instead of against them.

As a result, you will have perfect translation. You will achieve more, with less effort.

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Work Faster

The 8c Studio is a joy to work on. It provides precise detail and clarity without causing listening fatigue, so you can work as long as you want to.  And, because you will hear exactly what’s going on in your mix, you can produce more high-quality work in significantly less time.

If you want to consistently produce top-class work,
you can’t afford to let your monitoring be the bottleneck.
You need the truth.

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Stop Second-Guessing

Creating a stellar mix can be hard. The last thing you need are unreliable monitors that add stress and uncertainty to your process.

While the 8c Studio may not solve every challenge, it will take the guesswork out of your process. That means improved workflow, fewer revisions and in the end, happier clients.

Stop going back and forth between different rooms and monitors to make sure you’re on the right track. If it sounds good, it is good.

8c Specifications

COMPONENTS
LF: 8″ High Excursion Subwoofer (2x)
MF: 8″ Mid-Range Driver
HF: 1″ Alloy Dome Tweeter

ENCLOSURE TYPE
LF: Sealed
MF: Passive Cardioid

FREQUENCY RESPONSE
30 Hz – 20 kHz ± 1 DB

AMPLIFIER POWER
LF: 500 W
MF: 250 W
HF: 250 W

DIMENSIONS (H x W x D)
485 x 270 380 MM

WEIGHT
26 KG

RoomMatching
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Whether your room is small or big, acoustically treated or not. Whether the 8c’s are placed far away from objects, close to the wall or even tucked in the corner. 8c’s will deliver impeccable sound. That is because the 8c was designed to take room interaction into account. The collection of acoustic and digital technologies that enable the 8c to adapt to any environment, is called RoomMatching.

Acoustics first

When thinking about a speaker that adapts to the room, Digital Signal Processing may come to mind. Yet, although the 8c does employ DSP, they are an acoustic solution first. We believe that any acoustical problem that can be solved with ‘sound’ speaker design, should not be “cured” with DSP, as that can introduce its own set of problems. Instead, DSP should be the proverbial cherry on top.

  • The vents on each side of the 8c’s cabinet outputs out-of-phase mid frequencies to form a Cardioid Midrange, drastically reducing harmful reflections by the sound that is splayed off of walls.
  • The 8c’s tweeter is embedded in a large Minimum Diffraction Waveguide. It ensures that high frequencies have the exact  same directivity as the mids, giving the 8c Constant Directivity above 100 Hz
  • This is combined with the 8c’s unique Boundary Coupled Bass. The twin woofers on the back of the 8c acoustically couple with the wall, to improve bass precision and minimize time-smearing.

The 8c relies on a number of acoustical innovations to maximize its ability to adapt to the acoustics of any room, and minimize its dependency on digital room correction.

DSP Second

The above ensures that 8c’s complement the listening room acoustically, even before the involvement of Digital Signal Processing. The DSP is used to take the performance of the 8c even further. The 8c uses DSP to adapt its behavior to the specific requirements of the room the it is placed in. By telling the 8c how far away it is from its boundaries, as well as the dimensions of the listening triangle it is in, the 8c is able to set up the basics of RoomMatching. To second part is to perform room measurements and using the 8c’s onboard room correction to correct the frequency response in the bass. 

The first part is done in the 8c’s accompanying app, Ascend. The second part relies on Room EQ Wizard, which is freely available online and connects directly to the 8c. A comprehensive guide on how to use REW can be found here. Alternatively, a trained Dutch & Dutch professional can set up RoomMatching for you through our Remote Commissioning Service.

Easy placement

The combination of the cardioid midrange, boundary coupled bass, the minimum diffraction waveguide and the DSP’s boundary time-alignment functionality – unlike other speakers – the 8c’s can be placed very close to the wall behind it without detrimental effects. To the contrary! The 8c’s will actually sound even better if placed close to the wall.

 

IMPORTANT: Products and specifications are subject to change without notice.