What Makes Dynaudio's New Launch, Opus One Soundbar A Fit For Your Room

Although convenient, the term “soundbar” cannot be uttered around the Dynaudio Opus One. You will be politely corrected because the word has been worn thin by a decade of slim back bars promising cinema-scale sound but delivering an experience more adjacent to noise.

Inside are 24 different drive units, including six soft-dome tweeters, fourteen mid/bass drivers, and four dual-diaphragm force-cancelling subwoofers. That's the driver count of a proper multi-speaker home theatre, just folded into a single chassis and given a design brief reserved for fine furniture! All of the drivers are powered by 1500W of digital amplification and steered by Dynaudio's own spatial-audio processing. The ambition here isn't to disappear into the room but to make the room work in service of the sound. 

Opus One Soundbar Features

What really separates the Opus One from the growing pile of premium all-in-ones is almost half a century of studio-honed engineering by Dynaudio. Always known to focus on the acoustic outcome rather than the lifestyle lead-in, Opus One inherits that same bloodline rather than a scaled-down approximation of this philosophy. No wonder then that the design resists easy categorisation. The 72 motorised oak fins across its face are handmade by Karimoku, the Japanese furniture house better known for high-end cabinetry than for concealing tweeters. It's an unlikely but pointed pairing of Scandinavian restraint meeting Japanese joinery, on an object that flexes visibly between listening modes as if it were breathing along with the music.

What Makes Opus One Soundbar Unique?

Just when you think that’s a lot to absorb from a speaker system, out comes the party trick from the box. Beyond volume and source-switching is the overachieving remote. It houses a microphone used during initial setup to let Opus One figure out exactly where it's been placed — wall-mounted, stand-based, or freestanding — and calibrate its sound accordingly. No test tones, no app-based room correction ritual, no audiophile foreplay. Just point, listen, and you’re done. Dynaudio has clearly aimed this at people who want the outcome of decades of acoustic engineering without doing any of the calculations themselves.

Clearly aimed at the design-literate individual who demands the visceral impact of a cinema and also wants to preserve the delicate timing of a high-end turntable setup, but refuses to clutter their aesthetic with monolith speakers, is allergic to visible AV clutter, and is unwilling to compromise the room's aesthetics for the room's sound.

With a starting price of  €13,000 (Rs 14,16,298 approximately) in Europe, for now, Dynaudio has confirmed only its home market, Denmark, and China as launch markets, with "other territories globally" left deliberately vague. But if you really want it, you’ll figure a way to get it, won't you?