THE THREE SWITCHES

Three switches in the inset panel at the back of each speaker help make the Xeo speakers usefully versatile.

First up is a switch which allows you to invoke a frequency response adjustment for different positioning, with a ‘neutral’ setting plus adjustments for wall-mounted Xeo 20s, or those stuck in a corner where their response might otherwise be overly reinforced.

Second is a switch which simply designates whether the speaker is to play left or right channels... thus if you have sources which are over to the left of your system, you can have the master Xeo over there, rather than trailing cables all the way to the right. (Sounds obvious you’d think, but many master/slave speakers have fixed positions.)

The third switch selects one of three zones — labelled Red, Green and Blue. For a simple stereo pair like these Xeo 20 speakers, you just set both to the same colour zone, choose your left and right, and get on with the music.

But you could use these switches to create a larger system that plays music throughout a home. You could have three different Master speakers broadcasting to three zones of Slave speakers (unlimited speakers if using a Connect, see overleaf). And of course by flipping the Zone switches you could quickly reallocate speakers between zones, or have any Master speaker changed to address a different Zone.

With this grander plan in mind, the idea of putting physical cables between speaker pairs seems not only very last century but unthinkably messy! The rule of thumb has long been ‘cable when you can, wireless when you can’t’ — the Dynaudio system is clearly one which has surpassed this rule of hi-fi.