Steinway Lyngdorf Model D

Why it is renowned

The Model D was the first Steinway & Sons loudspeaker and laid the foundation for Steinway Lyngdorf, the partnership of the piano maker and Lyngdorf Audio.¹² The hi-fi site StereoNET wrote that it has the credentials to back up its maker's praise, pointing to its open dipole design and the 170 hours of machining in each speaker.³

Recognition

• StereoNET³"Steinway Lyngdorf's Model D Is A Masterpiece"

The story

The collaboration began with a promise that a Steinway Lyngdorf system would reproduce the sound of a Steinway & Sons grand piano as faithfully as possible; the Model D, launched in 2007, was the result.² Peter Lyngdorf took his cue from the way a piano sounds in a room.³

It is an open dipole: a tweeter, two midrange drivers and four large woofers sit in a rigid aluminium frame with no cabinet, so it sounds from the front and the back, and the bass cancels sideways to cut reflections from the side walls.¹ The baffle is milled from solid blocks of aluminium, with more than 170 hours of machining behind each speaker.¹ Two built-in digital amplifiers give each speaker 800 watts.¹ Each stands 205.8 cm tall and weighs 174 kg.¹