7,863 inhabitants, 55% of the city surface woods, 16% lakes. The only thing going down in Skanderborg is rain. People with a slightly more impulsive nature than we would probably kill themselves, or at least migrate to warmer parts of the world. (The last to achieve both was Johansen, at the South Pole, 1912). A true Dane just goes down to his cellar workshop and invents loudspeakers. (A great idea. With all this rain, we have exceptionally clean acoustics.) The first to do so was Peter L. Jensen. 62 years ago, he developed the first dynamic loudspeaker. Danes with just as much talent now work with Dynaudio. Every few years, they build a loud- speaker that makes the cognoscenti sit up and take notice. As you hear, you can hear nothing. The less you hear from our loudspeakers, the happier we are. This is no false modesty. Just a healthy dose of Danish confidence. After all, the object of the exercise is not to build a monument to our engineers. But to music.

(Monuments are a rarity in Denmark, anyway; we are peaceful people. Which may have something to do with the heading to this section. Power comes from quality. Mild climatic conditions require neither durable cars nor durable loudspeakers. One of the main reasons why we Danes invest so much in quality. Drivers which you could leave outdoors for a while. If you had to. Voice coils which in theory can withstand a lightning strike. (We must admit we haven't tried it yet. Finding a lightning willing to co-operate is surprisingly difficult.) Speakers which, even after years of use and abuse, will not wander from the path of right- eousness and truth. Not one iota. On the next few pages, you'll see how we do it. Danes don't lie.