Unrivalled Audio Precision in Your Home

Dutch & Dutch 8c active speakers represent a radical departure from conventional audio systems, delivering an extraordinary listening experience tailored your room. Designed to adapt to any space, the 8c integrates advanced technology to overcome room acoustics and create a soundstage of breathtaking clarity and accuracy.

By employing cardioid dispersion and precise boundary coupling, these speakers eliminate unwanted reflections and deliver consistent sound quality, no matter the room. Unlike traditional passive or active speakers, which rely on external components and complex setups, the 8c is an all-in-one solution that guarantees superior performance without compromise.

Why choose the 8c over conventional systems?

Conventional active and passive speaker systems often struggle with room interactions, requiring expensive acoustic treatments, external audio processing or painstaking setup to get the best from them. The Dutch & Dutch 8c solves this problem with RoomMatching – a unique combination of acoustic design and built-in room correction technology – ensuring optimal performance in real-world spaces. Here’s why it excels:

• All-in-One Design: No need for separate amplifiers, DACs or room correction hardware. The 8c incorporates everything you need for world-class sound.
• Perfect Room Integration: The speakers’ cardioid dispersion pattern and bass boundary coupling reduce unwanted reflections, delivering clean, precise sound even in challenging acoustic environments. Built-in room correction efficiently deals with modal resonances or standing waves.
• Effortless Streaming: With Roon Ready certification and network connectivity, you can easily stream your favourite music directly to the 8c.

Custom Calibration for Unmatched Performance

At Strictly Stereo, we provide a unique in-home calibration service, exclusive to our customers. Our experts will install and fine-tune your 8c speakers to match the acoustics of your space, ensuring you experience their full potential. This bespoke service is the key to unlocking an unparalleled audio experience, perfectly tailored to your home.

Key Features of the Dutch & Dutch 8c

• Cardioid Dispersion Technology: Minimises room reflections for pure, uncoloured sound.
• Built-In Room Correction: Mitigate the effects of room resonances with built-in room correction filters.
• Fully Customisable: Adjust the sound to suit your taste, source or content with fully customisable tone curves and presets.
• Roon Ready and Spotify Connect: Stream music effortlessly via your home network.
• Analogue or Digital Input: Easily connect an external analogue or digital source.
• Boundary Coupling for bass control: Dual 8″ boundary-coupled subwoofers for tight, accurate bass that adapts to speaker placement.
• Integrated Amplifiers and DACs: A complete system with no need for external components.
• Elegant Design: Modern aesthetics that complement any living space.
• Exclusive Calibration Service: Personalised in-home setup by Strictly Stereo experts.

Design and Technology

The Dutch & Dutch 8c blends clever acoustic design with state-of-the-art technology, delivering unrivalled performance and truly full range sound. 8c speakers comfortably reproduce frequencies from 20 Hz to 20 kHz and beyond, with none of the placement and room treatment challenges that come with other speakers.

8c speakers send less sound where it is not wanted. Reflections from the front and side walls are greatly reduced. Challenging acoustic effects like modal resonances are dealt with easily and the speakers can be placed as little as 3″ / 10 cm from the wall, without any unwanted boominess.

Waveguide

The tweeter is set in a custom-designed waveguide. The waveguide acts as an acoustic amplifier and also helps high frequencies to spread out more evenly.

Side Vents

The specially designed side vents are a crucial part of the 8c’s acoustic design. They are key to the speakers’ cardioid radiation pattern and exceptional in-room behaviour.

Subwoofers

Each 8c speaker has two boundary-coupled 8″ long throw sub-bass drivers at the rear. The result is fast and clean bass which reaches down to 20 Hz.

Connectivity

The 8c’s XLR input accepts analogue or digital audio signals. The Ethernet socket allows for app control and music streaming via Roon or Spotify Connect.

Dutch & Dutch Ascend companion app

The Ascend companion app will automatically discover 8c speakers on your network. You will then have full control of settings like gain, distance to front and side walls, parametric filters, shelving filters and firmware updates.

Once your 8c speakers have been integrated into your room and adjusted to taste, you can continue to use Ascend for volume control and input switching. Alternatively, you can use the volume slider in Roon or Spotify to remotely control the speaker’s volume setting.

For larger systems with multiple sources, you can use the 8c like a conventional active speaker and connect an analogue preamplifier, digital audio processor or DAC to the XLR inputs.

Perfectly Matched Stands

Every speaker needs a stable base to perform at its best and the Dutch & Dutch 8c is no exception. Dutch & Dutch offers its own purpose-built 8c speaker stands.

Strictly Stereo also offers a range of alternative stands from respected UK manufacturer Custom Design. These are customised versions of Custom Design’s off-the-peg models, designed to perfectly match your 8c speakers. Popular options include the SQ 404 four column, Open Frame four column and FS 106 six column models, but we can adapt almost any Custom Design speaker stand to fit the Dutch & Dutch 8c perfectly.

Maintainable Design

The Dutch & Dutch 8c is designed to appeal to audio professionals as well as audiophiles. In pro audio circles, time is money and downtime due to component failure is more than just an inconvenience. The 8c uses high quality off-the-shelf amplifier modules and other components with proven duty cycles and high reliability. The 8c’s design takes maintainability a step further though. All of the electronics are housed in an easily removable tray at the base of each speaker. The entire electronics tray can be swapped out in just a few minutes.

Transform Your Listening Experience

The Dutch & Dutch 8c is more than a speaker – it’s a gateway to enjoying music exactly as the artist intended. With advanced technology, effortless streaming and our exclusive calibration service, it’s the ultimate audio solution for your home. Discover the difference with Strictly Stereo.