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.

The 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.

Specs and Measurements

Tune the system to the room, not the room to the system. 8c’s adapt to the room they are in and can be placed (very) close to room boundaries without losing performance.

To achieve this, 8c’s combine a proprietary waveguide tweeter with an acoustic cardioid midrange, boundary-coupled bass drivers and active room matching. The result: superb acoustical reproduction in any room.

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.

From the smooth baffle to the solid oak cabinet, the 8c’s construction is designed to look as clean as it sounds.

Solid Wood

8c’s are automatically discovered on your LAN by Ascend, the 8c's companion app. Ascend will give you full control of settings like gain, distance to front and side walls, updates and many parametric filters. Internet connectivity is not required.

The control interface is also available as a website that is hosted on the 8c's themselves. This means that the 8c's can be controlled on any network, from any computer/OS with a somewhat modern browser.

Besides balanced analogue or AES3 input, you are able to stream digital music directly to your 8c’s. Set up left and right positions using your mobile device and the rest is done automatically.

Within your LAN, 8c’s can be grouped into multiple zones. Perfectly synchronized music can then be played effortlessly in those zones.

Firmware updates are pushed out by Dutch & Dutch up to four times per year. Each update adds new features to your 8c's overnight and keep your 8c’s up-to-date with industry standards and trends.

By default 8c's do not install new updates. Instead they give you the power to manually control the firmware version your 8c's are running. Should you choose to update to a new firmware version, the 8c will automatically download and install any version you select.