Power, control and elegance. The Contour 30 has been redesigned inside and out to deliver a truly memorable performance.

The medium-sized one: powerful, controlled, remarkable. Power, control and elegance. The Contour 30 has been redesigned inside and out to deliver a truly memorable performance.

Mid-size room? Mid-size speaker.

Contour 30 steps it up a notch from the 20. Of course, it still treads the same path – one of honesty, transparency and sheer entertainment, but it puts it all in a bigger package.

More control over the sound
We’ve endowed Contour 30 with two 18cm MSP drivers, as well as doubling up on the rear ports. What makes our drivers so special? Variable thickness across the diaphragm, for one thing.

And aluminium voice-coils, for another. We can make them extremely light – but also bigger than the old-style copper units you’ll find elsewhere. Lighter weight means larger diameters, which means we can use more windings, which means we have more control over the cone movement. And that means more control over the sound – especially at high frequencies and high volumes. Sure, we experimented with small voice-coils on the Contour – the size other companies might use. The measurements said they should work for Contour. Our ears said otherwise, so we went big. Our ears were right.

And, of course, we’ve included the ultra-pure, ultra-clear, ultra-sweet-sounding Esotar2 fabric soft-dome tweeter. You might also notice that we’ve put it back on top of the mid/bass drivers. Never let it be said that we don’t read our fan-mail.

And because we’re irrepressible tinkerers, we’ve given the inside a makeover, too. As with the Contour 20 and Contour 60, the Contour ’30 has updated baskets to hold the drivers themselves, as well as an improved crossover and wiring. We listened to our old Contours for months – the whole range (as if we needed an excuse) – and decided we wanted the crossover to serve up even better bass. So now, you can go louder and lower. You’re welcome.

While our engineers and designers were hunkered down listening to everything from jazz, to classical, to metal, to electronica, the team in our on-site factory were scouring sustainable sources for high-quality materials and finishes. They make sure all Contours are furniture-grade: perfectly built, perfectly finished and perfectly packaged.

• RangeContour
• TypeFloorstand
• Sensitivity (dB @ 2.83V/1m)87
• Lower Cutoff (Hz @ +/- 3 dB)32
• Upper Cutoff (kHz @ +/- 3 dB)23
• Box PrincipleBass reflex rear ported
• Crossover2.5-way
• Crossover Frequency (Hz)(300),2200 Hz
• Crossover Topology2nd order
• Tweeter28 mm Esotar2
• Midrange/Woofer2x18 cm MSP
• Weight kg34.4
• Weight lbs75 7/8
• Width mm215
• Height mm1140
• Depth mm 360
• Width inches8 4/8
• Height inches44 7/8
• Depth inches14 1/8
• Width mm incl. feet/grill300
• Height mm incl. feet/grill1169
• Depth mm incl. feet/grill403