I managed to find a "new" pair of Dynaudio Contour MKII loudspeakers a couple of days ago. I decided to buy them and see what all the fuss was about regarding these Danish speakers. Well it turns out that the positive reviews were only the tip of the iceburg in terms of actually sitting down and listening to these puppies. Really nice open soundstage, excellent bass response, vocals and high frequency extension is world class, and the open soundstage as mentioned pulls out into the room a holographic presentation which I have never heard before in any speaker I have auditioned.
One of the things I have noticed was that the bass is "real". The speakers are boxes but do not sound as such due to isolated chambers for each driver and wonderful internal damping etc... There is no over-tuning for bass unlike some other bookshelfs which put out what in my mind is "fake bass". The speakers go low and that's it. There's no boom, no bloat and no muffle. It's quick, animate and delicate at the same time. I believe this is one of the reasons for that holographic soundstage I speak of.
I've only played the speakers out of the box for a few dozen hours, and I am noticing the speakers starting to "break in", the sound changes towards the "even better" hour after hour. I plan to spend a couple of hours today listening. I have to say that the speakers are worth it and possibly are worth more than the $2400 price I spend on the pair due to excellent quality and craftmanship and nontheless really sophisticated sound quality.