Overview i.e. what the makers say about the Company
We love music.
And both Lyngdorf and Stereonow want to listen to music exactly as it was created.
Music is the essence of human emotion. And to most of us it's more powerful than the spoken word in expressing love, anger, spirited passion and strong devotion. It’s the first and foremost language for feelings. Speech is for the intellect, music is from the heart.
This is why music matters so much to you. It evokes feelings, brings back memories and it makes you want to kiss your loved one. Music is the very essence of your passion and your life.
We all love music. Therefore, our mission is to re-play music exactly as it was recorded. To create music systems that can preserve and present the full dimension of passion in any kind of music.
This has never been possible before due to the limitations of traditional audio systems. That is why "reproduction of music" has become a universal phrase in the hi-fi world. Even the most expensive audio systems affect the colour, the timbre, the immaculate and invaluable emotion of the music. It has been changed and is no longer original. Thus the expression "re-production of music", which actually means copying. Traditional audio systems inevitably add their own "flavour". But the original passion in music cannot be "re-produced".
Lyngdorf equipment doesn’t re-produce music. Their equipment re-plays music with all the passion intact. Nothing added - nothing removed. Their music systems are for many, simply the best to recreate the original musical event exactly as it was recorded. Why? Because their technology is for its advocates, superior. No one has more experience in cutting-edge digital audio than Lyngdorf. Their "crew" counts the best audio designers in the world. If in doubt - just listen. And you will be convinced.
Musicians play music as always. Now you can re-play music exactly as it was created. Think about that! Isn't that what everybody has been trying to achieve since hifi was born?
What we have to say about Lyngdorf
What we have to say about Lyngdorf Regardless of what make of hifi or home cinema you use, its performance will be far from accurate due to the following three issues.
1. Analogue Distortion & Noise
For 20 years we have been enjoying CD’s and the sonic benefits of digital sources. The complete absence of background noise that CD/DVD provides has removed one of the obstacles between the performance and the listener.
What is remarkable is that the hifi and home cinemas we use to play these digital sources are still analogue and so create noise and colouration that compromise the quality of our digital recordings.
Just how much colouration is being added by Digital to Analogue conversion and analogue amplification is obvious when you hear a recording you are familiar with played on a complete digital system.
When the signal is kept in the digital domain throughout the electronics, far less is added or taken away to your music. Comparing all digital systems against semi digital or analogue alternatives is like comparing CD to tape.
2. Speaker Room Interaction
One of the most effective methods of tuning a hifi is by repositioning the speakers. Most people would agree that the best layout is to create an equilateral triangle with the speakers and listener, with the loudspeakers placed 12-24” off the rear wall.
While this may be the perfect location for speakers reproducing mid and high frequencies, this placement creates significant problems for low frequencies.
As low frequencies leave a speaker in all directions, the direct sounds that you hear from your speakers will always be accompanied by the sound that has left the rear of the speaker and has been reflected back off the rear wall. This echo blurs the initial signal and as it is delayed, also spoils your systems timing.
Percussion for example is simply not realistic because of your speakers’ location.
3. Room Acoustics
An increase of 6db sounds twice as loud to us. Most quality speakers are designed to reproduce sound within a 6db tolerance, which means that in a perfect room, with very good speakers one note should sound no more than twice as loud as the next.
Unfortunately the perfect listening does not exist and most rooms will create variations of more than 20db. With a hifi reproducing a musician playing the scales on the drums, with a 20db variance – one drum would sound more than four times louder the next.
The changes that a room’s acoustics make mean that even the best hifi and home cinemas in the best acoustic spaces are far from accurate.
Lyngdorf – A Revolutionary Approach to Sound Reproduction
Only Lyngdorf music systems maintain an unbroken digital chain throughout their electronics. This reduces the distortion, noise and colouration that other hifi systems create – it’s like comparing CD with vinyl or tape.
Lyngdorf’s Boundary Woofers are placed in pairs, flat against the wall. In this position the direct and reflected sound they produce arrive at the listening position completely in time. The result is that you hear each bass note played only once rather than with a secondary echo spoiling its timing and impact.
Lyngdorf’s RoomPerfect is the world’s most advanced room correction system. While even the best audiophile system will typically vary 20db in most rooms, RoomPerfect reduces this to less than 2db for a truly accurate reproduction of your music.
Listening to music you are familiar with on a full Lyngdorf 2.2 music system is a revelation. With the fundamental errors that compromise all other systems removed you will hear detail and nuances in your music that until now had been hidden by the noise of your electronics and the distortion that your room’s acoustics have created.
Lyngdorf models
CD-1 CD player
The CD-1 is a pure CD transport/player designed with the best design techniques and components possible. Used with any of the Lyngdorf amplifiers, the CD-1 provides the sort of unsurpassed performance that only comes from complementing components.
The CD-1 is designed with all the experience gained from designing the Lyngdorf digital amplifier products.
Low-noise design techniques are applied to carefully upsample the digital output. The digital output is available in SPDIF, Toslink or AES format.
The D/A converter section is the same as in the legendary Millennium amplifier and it is being used to drive a high quality, single-ended and balanced output stage.
The intuitive push-to-enter user interface is used for daily operation such as play, pause, skip etc. but also for more sophisticated use such as setting all parameters of the CD-1, e.g. sample rate or the level of the audio signal output.
All operations can be of course accessed with the included remote control which also operates the Lyngdorf amplifiers.
And if you have a Lyngdorf true digital amplifier you can shut down all analog sections to turn the CD-1 into a transport only to obtain the best possible performance from the CD-1.
Some reproduce what is on the disc – the Lyngdorf CD-1 re-plays the music on the disc, no more, no less:
Comments re CD-1
HiFi & Musik has tested eight CD-players and the Lyngdorf CD-1 ended up with ‘Best Sound’. "In other words, this is a CD-player that breathes life into the most tired of audio systems." "Without an effort the Lyngdorf matches our reference DAC’s attack, dynamics and has a very potent sound."
HiFi & Musik, Sweden
“Lyngdorf is to be congratulated for the work done, for the CD-1 is an excellent CD player, capable of competing with products with far superior price tags. Factors like dynamics, clarity and detail make this listening experience addictive, with the advantage that this is a harmless addiction. The asked price is inferior to the real value of the product, considering that the ‘real value’ comes from what the product can produce and present in the form of music. When we discover products this worthwhile, then its cost is surely inferior to the long pleasure hours we can enjoy through its use.”
AUDIO&CINEMA EM CASA, Portugal
Five out of five stars! “For starters, it’s built brilliantly: no rival we’ve come across matches this machine for solidity or finish. Take a look at the techie-bits, and you find digital inputs and clever internal processing to produce as clean and distortion-free signal as possible.”
WHAT HI-FI? UK
STEREOPLAY of Germany had an almost complete Lyngdorf system: DPA-1, SDA-2175 and CD-1 for review, issued in October 2007. In the test team's own words the result was nothing less than ‘sensational’. “The stylish CD-1 was capable of presenting all the details in a recording in a most elaborate way and presented them in a beautifully modelled and lifelike sound stage. The precision and timing are impressive – especially when the upsampling is set at 96 kHz. The whole sound concept of CD-1 is impressive." “A CD-player of noble construction and with a precious upsampler. The sound is very precise and free from coloration.”
STEROPLAY, Germany
“CD-1 always plays homogenously with a very clean and natural midrange. A talent, which made the hair rise on our necks by warm female voices like Janis Ian. Our verdict: An honest unit – this Dane with the black soul.”
Stereo, Germany
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DPA-1 Preamp with Room Perfect
The DPA-1 is a true digital pre-amplifier from Lyngdorf incorporating the innovative RoomPerfect room correction technology that allows you to access to the real sound of your audio system.
The DPA-1 digital pre-amplifier is much more than a pre-amplifier with room correction: It is also a complete digital signal processing control centre for designing advanced loudspeaker set-ups.
To ensure maximum compatibility and easy connection the DPA-1 offers both single ended and balanced inputs/outputs. So, connect a source, analog or digital, and hook it up to your power amplifier(s) – and you are done!
The RoomPerfect room correction technology in the DPA-1 pre-amplifier effectively removes the room from the ‘good sound’ equation. The technology used to do this simply represents state-of-the-art within room correction. And test results from all over the world confirm that it also works perfectly in ‘real life’.
It works and makes a world of difference – but how is it to operate? Well, even though this is the most sophisticated room correction system in the market it is very simple to use. You don't need to know anything about acoustics or computers to get full benefit from RoomPerfect. The menu will guide you through the calibration and everything needed; microphone, stand and cable come included with the DPA-1. So, you are easily up and running in less than an hour!
Try out the Lyngdorf DPA-1 – that is, of course, if you want to discover the real sound of your audio system.
Comments re DPA-1
"Undoubtedly, this (DPA-1 Digital Pre Amplifier) is a revolutionary device in its domain. For the absolute majority of music lovers this pre-amplifier can be the base of the system, irreproachable in its flexibility and completion and with its technology they will have the inevitable problems with room acoustics eliminated."
AudioMagazine, Russia
"Those details, typically in the low-frequency range, which would otherwise be masked by room resonances, suddenly become highly detailed and well defined, and you simply hear what is happening. The latter is probably the most accurate description – everything is made available and presented in a previously unheard way. This fact makes RoomPerfect – and room correction in general – worth every penny.
As a neutral provider of music, with and without RoomPerfect, DPA-1 ranks among the world's best. I do not recall having heard any control amplifier with so little sound of its own . . ."
And the verdict is an unconditional recommendation:
"I will not hesitate to recommend that you give the Lyngdorf DPA-1 an exhaustive audition. With RoomPerfect, Lyngdorf has created an instrument, which is an excellent, neutral music provider, and without doubt ranks among the absolutely best control amps in the world – regardless of price. With RoomPerfect, you acquire the potential for a further improvement – provided that your listening room needs correction. However, my point is that most people will experience a considerable improvement, and when the system furthermore is so easy to operate as the DPA-1, an optimum boost of the attainable reproduction quality is practically guaranteed."
HIGHfidelity, Denmark
Yes, the DPA-1 is a very good stereo preamplifier, but what we want to emphasise is its Room Perfect exclusive acoustic correction system. When many devices (preamps, processors and AV receivers) feature automatic calibration systems, and some also solutions for acoustic correction, the Room Perfect takes indisputable leader position in this field. Not only because it really manages to correct the imperfections of our living rooms, but because it keeps the personality of the loudspeakers nearly intact. We came across the Room Perfect with the Lyngdorf TDA 2200 and yet at that time, we asked for a solution like the DPA-1 represents today. It can look expensive, but for the moment it is the only stereo preamplifier that as well as working perfectly, includes an intelligent and unique acoustic correction that deserves our complete attention. A product that we absolutely recommend for its significance, that undoubtedly, deserves the award it has received."
CEC, Spain
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RP-1 Stand-Alone RoomPerfect Device
The RP-1 is a standalone room correction processor that can be inserted in any conventional pre-/power amplifier set up. This is the simplest way of removing room-generated anomalies and the fastest way to improve the sonic performance of analogue audio system.
The effect of the RP-1 ‘Black Box’ is magical – however, there is nothing mysterious about why it is so efficient. The ‘Black Box’ simply introduces the world patented RoomPerfect room correction technology to improve the sound in analogue audio systems. In essence, the ‘Black Box’ will improve sound reproduction in any audio system, from basic to very high-end set-ups.
To ensure maximum compatibility and easy connection the RP-1 offers both single ended and balanced inputs/outputs. So, select single ended or balanced in the RP-1 menu and connect it between your pre- and power amplifier – or via a tape loop on your integrated amplifier and you are done!
Even though RoomPerfect is the most sophisticated room correction system on the market it is very simple to use. You don’t need to know anything about acoustics or computers to get the full benefit of RoomPerfect. The menu will guide you through the calibration and everything needed; microphone, stand and cable come included with the RP-1. So, you will be easily up and running in less than an hour!
And bear in mind that we are not just talking ‘tweaking’ here. This device removes the single, most influential obstacle in the quest to achieve the best possible music re-play – the room itself.
Comments re RP-1
Declared: Most significant new product
The Absolute Sound – CES ´08: The Best New Gear
“I thought that my system did a pretty good job of it until I heard it with the RP-1 engaged. For the first time, everything fell into place. I heard notes I had not heard before.” “When you consider that I have over $5,000 worth of room treatments and that I could have avoided buying them, and can now actually consider removing them, the $3,800 cost of the RP-1 is a bargain. In fact, I think it’s fair to say that the Lyngdorf RP-1 is the most cost-effective piece of audio hardware that I’ve personally tried.”
www.dagogo.com, USA
“Never before has a single component even been close to giving such a substantial improvement to the sound of my audio system as the RP-1.”
Horerlebnis, Germany
Overall conclusion: “Revolutionary in the way it works, the Lyngdorf RP-1 is the best of today’s acoustical room correction. This processor makes it possible to reach a very high quality level of sound reproduction in less than favourable acoustical environments. It is capable of completely changing an audio system, the RP-1 is a magnificent product which you can only with great difficulty send back after testing. If you try it you buy it!”
STEREO IMAGE, France
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TDAI2200 Full Digital Integrated Amplifier
The TDAI 2200 true digital integrated amplifier is the most versatile amplifier in our range and in the world. The standard version of the compact 2 x 200W digital control centre can be expanded with analogue input module and the outstanding RoomPerfect room correction system.
The TDAI 2200 is a fully digital amplifier from Lyngdorf based on the experience gained during the design of the new Millennium platform. The TDAI 2200 is much more than an amplifier, it is a complete digital signal processing control centre for designing advanced audio systems based around active loudspeakers. Active, meaning use of active cross-overs instead of ordinary passive filters.
And don't let the actual size of the product deceive you. The compact design of the TDAI 2200 features a powerful amplifier capable of driving difficult loudspeaker loads effortlessly. Also integrated within is a DSP section with equalisation and correction possibilities for speaker position and delay, combined with extreme versatility with regard to processing, making this amplifier an obvious choice for the critical audiophile.
This product replaces simultaneously a D/A converter, a pre-amplifier and a power amplifier, requiring only a CD transport as a source. The TDAI 2200 is full of remarkable features like the adjustable power supply voltage which actually works as the volume control. This ensures you full dynamic range – even when playing at very low volume levels.
The TDAI 2200 is the ultimate combination of tools, toys and audiophile amplification.
Comments re TDAi2200
"The Lyngdorf TDAI 2200 delivers a level of ergonomic control and sonic subtlety that makes it unique among digital or analogue integrated amplifiers. The TDAI 2200 reveals inner detail with as much grace and verisimilitude as anything I've heard. It renders musical detail so you don't have to expend excess mental energy to listen into a mix, but the information isn't presented in a sterile or excessively matter-of-fact way. After only a couple of hours with the Lyngdorf TDAI 2200, you, too, will discover the joys of RoomPerfect are hard to deny and difficult to live without." Steven Stone.
Enjoy the Music.com – Best Of 2008 Blue Note Equipment Awards
"The Lyngdorf TDAI-2200 Integrated Amp and CD-1 CD Player are remarkable components with exquisite audio performance, a term I’ve never used to describe an audio component. I have listened to many fine amplifiers and players in my system and these are among the finest I’ve heard. I’m certain there are many fine audio components that would compete with the Lyngdorf TDAI-2200 and CD-1, but I haven’t heard them yet."
About.com
"A super digital amplifier combined with the RoomPerfect system, which corrects room/speaker problems but preserves general speaker character."
The Absolute Sound – 2008 Editors’ Choice Awards
Special mention from the readers. Certainly the audience has utilized this category to reward the innovative acoustic correction system, RoomPerfect from Lyngdorf. But, in any case, the TDAI 2200 does not forget its amplification dimension, and renew the enthusiasts confidence in digital amplification. As we could realise, despite its discreet appearance, this TDAI 2200 provides excellent performance and it is competent to drive very high performance costly loudspeakers."
CEC, Spain
Golden Ear Award: “It is easy to get used to a system and forget the extent to which the room around it is affecting negatively what (one hopes) is the really good speaker system one bought. The RoomPerfect sets out, not to change your speakers utterly into some pre-existing concept of correct sound, but rather to gently guide your speaker/room combination into the sound you would hear if the room wasn’t deforming the basic sound of your speakers.”
The Absolute Sound, USA
"On my own recording of the Boulder Philharmonic performing Beethoven's 9th symphony, each soloist occupied a more precise spot on the stage. The overall soundstage exhibited noticeably less smearing of the sonic image. On all the commercial pop, rock, and folk CDs in my library lead vocalists were better cantered and background vocalists were more distinct entities with RoomPerfect™ engaged. RoomPerfect's improvement to time-alignment and reduction of early reflections certainly has positive affects on any music that passes through the TDAI 2200."
Enjoy the Music.com
This might sound more than slightly crazy, but even if we were unsure of the TDA 2200's basic sound, it would still be on our shortlist. The digital processing is so seamless and works so well that it's hard not to be impressed. Yes, the closer you get to traditional audiophile perfection in the system and the room, the less RoomPerfect seems to affect the sound, but this is a good thing – it doesn't intrude on systems where its presence is not vital, but is a welcome bonus to those who need it."
Hi-Fi Choice, UK
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DP-1 Dipole Speakers
The DP-1 is a true little jewel. This elegant and slim line floorstanding dipole loudspeaker will deliver midrange and treble with an effortlessness and musicality you have never heard before.
The DP-1 is intended to be used in a Lyngdorf 2+2 set-up – where you combine it with a BassDirect speaker to deliver the bass.
When we started developing the DP-1 we took a serious look into one of the largest problem for loudspeakers – the cabinet itself – and simply removed it. The speaker cabinet was originally invented as an easy way of obtaining deep bass from a small speaker system. But a cabinet is resonant and vibrant and thus makes a lot of unwanted contribution to the sound. Therefore, the cabinet advantage of extended bass has severe costs in degradation of all the octaves above, especially the upper bass and midrange. And since we did not need bass from the DP-1 the choice was easy.
Furthermore, the air inside a cabinet works like a ‘spring’ attached to the cone and like a real spring actually works as a mechanical ‘brake’, holding back the driver unit when it starts to move. This actually drains energy from the drive units which obviously compromises dynamics, attack and precision.
The new Lyngdorf DP-1 speakers have no cabinet, just a stylish front baffle on which the drivers are mounted. This – in combination with the selection of some of the best drivers available – results is an extremely open, detailed and dynamic musicality completely free from traditional cabinet-induced smear and coloration.
Comments re DP-1 as part of the complete Lyngdorf system
“Lyngdorf gives you a taste of the sound of the future with the RoomPerfect system – a music system that really plays in tune with the listening room and, under optimum conditions, can match twice as expensive systems.”
“The dipole loudspeakers DP-1 have a quite special ability to disappear within the sound stage and leave a crystal clear midrange that brings out even minute details in the sound mix. The tweeter belongs to the fine-grained variety that does not stand out too much, unless required to, and it never becomes unpleasant to listen to.”
“Never before have I experienced such a light and fast, but still utterly solid and powerful bass in my living room as with the room corrected BW-1 subwoofers. The bass range is totally free of booms, resonances and other undesired effects that can mask the tones from a double bass and other instruments. And they go deep enough to reproduce the lowest tones from a church organ without problems.”
Lyd & Bilde (Sound & Picture), Norway
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BW-1 Boundary Woofers
The BW-1 is a dedicated BassDirect speaker designed for front wall placement in 2+2 systems. When placing the flat designed cabinet against the front wall, the direct sound as well as wall and floor reflections will arrive simultaneously at the listening position – resulting in unsurpassed attack and precision. It's the perfect match for the Lyngdorf DP-1 – or any other main speaker.
Despite the very flat design you might still think that the BW-1 is the typical subwoofer – we guarantee it is much more. With its incredible precision, dynamics and speed this BassDirect speaker is specifically designed to work in active 2+2 systems. The flat design was made in order to load optimally to the room, as well as blending in to a discreet position, thus offering new possibilities in speaker arrangement and design. The BW-1 has been designed for placement along the front walls of your room making it possible to design active 2+2 systems e.g. with the DP-1s. Any speaker setup – from smaller compact systems to large floorstanders – will greatly benefit from adding a pair of BW-1s.
The BW-1 must be operated by means of crossover and equalisation controls present in the DSP section of the fully digital Lyngdorf amplifiers and room processors – do so and a stunning experience awaits you with crossover frequencies at 300Hz, freeing up the power handling of the main speakers.
And adding the Lyngdorf RoomPerfect technology to your system will elevate the performance even further.
With its piano finish the BW-1 blends in perfectly in any environment. Ask your dealer for a demonstration of a 2+2 system – you are in for an ‘ear opening’ experience!
Comments re BW-1 as part of the complete Lyngdorf system
“Lyngdorf gives you a taste of the sound of the future with the RoomPerfect system – a music system that really plays in tune with the listening room and, under optimum conditions, can match twice as expensive systems.”
“The dipole loudspeakers DP-1 have a quite special ability to disappear within the sound stage and leave a crystal clear midrange that brings out even minute details in the sound mix. The tweeter belongs to the fine-grained variety that does not stand out too much, unless required to, and it never becomes unpleasant to listen to.”
“Never before have I experienced such a light and fast, but still utterly solid and powerful bass in my living room as with the room corrected BW-1 subwoofers. The bass range is totally free of booms, resonances and other undesired effects that can mask the tones from a double bass and other instruments. And they go deep enough to reproduce the lowest tones from a church organ without problems.”
Lyd & Bilde (Sound & Picture), Norway
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