HANSEN AUDIO


 




Hansen Audio - THE DRAGON LEGEND E
“AMAZING”


THE DRAGON LEGEND E

“Humble! Which is kinda what I felt, walking into the room with E.A.R. equipment fronting the Speakers from Hansen Audio.

Humble! Because this stuff is amazing.

The new-at-CES, DRAGON LEGEND E is about as far from hackish mundaneness as high-end audio tends to get. It’s a 4-driver/3-way loudspeaker that sports the top-of-the-line soft-dome tweeter and some wicked-cool driver tech. The woofers and mids are completely custom, a 3-layer sandwich considerably more stiff than “mere” aluminum that designer Lars Hansen describes as being completely inert, with no coloration at all. “The finished driver, utilizing our amazing powerful motor assembly, has the fastest attack time, the quickest recovery time and the most accurate tracking possible.” Tough talk. I love it when designers do that!

The cabinet ... is actually finished in an “animal free” Luxury Leather, that I believe is also used in some insanely expensive super-lux cars. The cabinet itself is very unusual in shape, and said to be phase coherent and “dispersion coherent”..... Sitting in the sweet-spot, I heard all manner of powerful competence. Clearly, this speaker was loafing here, but cranking it, would probably have caused structural issues in the room.”



Scot Hull
The Audio Traveller