Andrew Quint - Award
Golden EAR 2024 Best Product Award
01-04-2025
The Absolute Sound awarded the 8c with their prestigious Golden Ear. They mentioned especially our - first in the world - ability to stream third party plugin BACCH 3D:
"The 8c is a fairly directional loudspeaker that represents a significant advantage when it comes to crosstalk cancellation."
Graic Joyce - Review
"Significantly Surpass them"
31-03-2025
Graic Joyce wrote a review about the 8c with a flattering verdict:
"Possessing a ruler-flat frequency response, a huge soundstage, endless gobs of bass, and a non-fatiguing listening experience, it doesn’t so much meet expectations as significantly surpass them."
Greg Borrowman - Review 8c
"Utterly Captured"
01-03-2025
Greg Borrowman about the 8c in a 5 page review in Audio Esoterica:
"The Dutch & Dutch 8c active speakers are so phenomenally good that we are prepared to bet serious money that when you hear them you won’t believe yourown ears (...) Like those of the rest of the hi-fi world, consider our hearts, minds and ears utterly captured"
Indepth coverage - Jan Didden
"Impeccable Placement"
06-12-2023
Jan Didden visited our factory and interviewed founder Martijn Mensink about our RoomMatching technology. His written result explains our technology thoroughly and exceptionally well.
Also some loving words: "The wandering of voices and instruments with changing frequency that so often happens in lesser systems was totally absent in the 8cs, confirming that the team’s efforts to control and shape the dispersion throughout the audio frequency range was spot on."
Falk Visauris - Review
"Riesigen Klanghöhle"
17-03-2024
Falk Visauris decided to retest the 8c, this time with a focus on Bacch 3D and recently added streaming capabilities.
"BACCH scheint das Klangbild ein wenig zu beruhigen und spannt den Raum weit (!) über die Lautsprecher hinaus auf, so dass ich jetzt endgültig das Gefühl habe, auf meiner Couch vor einer riesigen Klanghöhle zu sitzen, in dem die Sängerin, ein Klavier und ein Cello agieren."
Erin Hardinson - Top 5
"Great directivity"
Erin from Erin's Audio Corner named Dutch & Dutch in his top 5 choice among the speakers he has reviewed, if money were no object.
"Data shows us a really smooth on axis response and really neutral off axis responses, as well with really great directivity through the mid-range: You can equalize the speaker to do pretty much whatever you want, with great results."
Stereophile Staff - listed
Recommended Components
Each year, Stereophile compiles a list of Recommended Components—products that are genuinely endorsed based on their reviews. The Dutch & Dutch 8c is proudly featured on this prestigious list.
Audio Nostalgia - Review
"Blown Away"
"Overall, after carefully exploring choices made by Dutch & Dutch, I’m blown away by the design of the 8cs. The amount of clever engineering that went into these loudspeakers is truly impressive."
Diego Estan - Soundstage! Hi-Fi
When Doug Schneider asked me to review the 8c active loudspeaker from Dutch & Dutch, my first reaction was: “Dutch and what?”
The Absolute Sound -Dutch & Dutch 8C
"If the future of high-end audio is about fewer boxes and the implementation of advanced software, that’s great. If there’s an associated reduction of the price of admission to the realm of world-class sound, that’s downright revolutionary."
- Andrew Quint
Nigel Palmer - Dutch & Dutch 8C
“Response was even and smooth from the lowest to highest frequencies, and I’ve rarely heard such a stable centre image, almost like having an additional monitor there.”
Falk Visarius - HiFi-IFAs
German review. Aktivlautsprecher mit D/A-Wandler Dutch & Dutch 8c – Ein leckeres Gedeck.
David Grzyb - Hifi Knights
"If you’ve been ever wondering whether an all-in-one product can stand up to a far costlier setup of regular sort or even surpass it, this report might have just the answer."
Phil Ward - Sound on Sound
Of course the vast majority of conventional speakers begin to become cardioid at mid and high frequencies — above, say, 500Hz — but Dutch & Dutch claim the 8C is cardioid right down to 100Hz.
Kalman Rubinson - Stereophile
“The Dutch & Dutch 8c’s might be the sweet spot in the new category of active speakers”
Marja & Henk - 6Moons
“Here we felt the 8c to be as neutral as can be. There was no hint of
coloration, accent or emphasis. Whatever we put in is what came out,
just louder.”
Sinan Kökbugur - Hifi.nl
Dutch review. “Om maar meteen de deur in te trappen: de 8c’s klinken goed, heel goed zelfs.”