We aim to provide the best customer and audio playback experience with atypical dipole speaker designs, where performance and craftsmanship are not subject to the constraints of "bean counters" or corporate influences.
We offer the options of choosing one of our turn key solutions, personalizing our designs, such as colour, frequency response, passive and/or electronic crossover designs, powered bass section, "internal" wiring, crossover components, connectors, etc., or take the full custom route by letting us build your own twisted design.
At Dipole Dynamics we like dipole speakers, like, really, really like them, and we like them enough to make dipoles our whole “raison d’être”.
To better explain the why, what follows is a bit of an overly simplified theory on the subject. Therefore, pick your favorite adult beverage, and be prepared to be amazed by our capability to screw up what AI can probably do better.
Otherwise known as open baffle speakers, dipole speakers derive their name from the fact that the polar response of such speakers consists of two lobes, with equal radiation forwards and backwards (a.k.a., dipole), with the sound waves 180 degrees out of phase to each other, and with none perpendicular to the axis.
At its simplest form, a dipole speaker consists of a loudspeaker driver mounted on a flat panel and pointing the business end towards the listener.
When well executed, and care is given to speaker placement in your listening space, dipole speakers are magical, they excel at creating a diffuse and enveloping soundstage.
Rather than pinpointing specific sounds, dipole speakers generate a spacious, natural, and ambient soundstage, with little to no direct reflections from the sides of the room, thus useful in reducing the stimulation of resonant room modes, especially at low frequencies.
Dipole speakers also result in high frequencies being reflected from any rear wall, which can enhance the naturalness of the sound in typical listening rooms by creating more diffuse reverberations.
Like all good things in life, it is not all pixies riding unicorns over rainbows while eating sugar coated dreams, and dipole speakers also have their own limitations and drawbacks.
Typically, dipole speakers are less efficient because, for the same loudspeaker driver, a dipole speaker results in less sound pressure level than a sealed or ported enclosure, and their placement in the listening space, especially the distance between the speaker and the rear wall has a greater impact on the soundstage depth and width.
We could say that the people at Dipole Dynamics are visionaries looking to provide ground breaking, never seen before audio solutions, and all that type of nonsense, but the same laws of physics apply to everyone, including us.
Dipole Dynamics' story and that of its founder, an passionate named Denis, is a much simpler and modest one; he loves designing and making stuff (way, way too much stuff actually), he loves music, he is rarely satisfied by what is commercially available, and his wife would say that he suffers from a bit of perfectionism mixed in with "some" OCD!
As a long time audiophile I, yes "I" as in singular (one man show here), I was left unsatisfied with the repetitive and corporate infused offerings where the illusions of value, performance, and quality literally hide behind pretty aesthetics, but where the core design goals are, as always, infinite growth and ever bigger profit margins at the expense of the product itself and the end user experience.
The foundation that would eventually become Dipole Dynamics was laid in 2020; after experiencing firsthand the shortcomings of the audio industry for over 15 years, I realized just how "made to a price point" is amongst the greatest evil of the audio industry, and I did what had to be done, I went on a learning journey, got smart on the subject, and fixed the design flaws of my then speakers.
My firsthand experience at upgrading speakers and building multiple pairs of open baffle's left me yearning for something better from the audio industry; that connection where we would go to the old masters, see, touch, and smell the honest workshops where artisans toiled at perfecting their craft, and where the customer became a part of the history of the business, not just numbers on quarterly earnings report.
Stemming from my years of experience in conception, design, and manufacturing, from aerospace components, to motorsports, Dipole Dynamics was established to support you, my fellow audiophiles, in your own personal music playback journey with honest and performance driven offerings at all price points. Volume is not our goal, but the human connection that goes into making someone's audio dreams a reality.
