Dynacord CLS-22 (1980s)
Little is documented about the Dynacord CLS-22. No original manual, service notes or detailed period reviews have surfaced in the archive. It was a signal processor from the early 1980s, when Dynacord was pushing hard into the American professional sound reinforcement market. The company's own advertising from late 1982 through early 1983 called Dynacord "Europe's leading professional sound reinforcement equipment" arriving in the U.S., and stressed mechanical stability and technological standards. The CLS-22 would have come in on that wave of brand introduction.
A brief listing in Mix Magazine (November 1982, p.77) puts the CLS-22 in a rack-mount context. It took up a single rack space and had a suggested price of $595. The same listing gives an input level of 50mV to 3V, an output level of 775mV, and a signal-to-noise ratio of 76dB minimum. That points to a line-level processor for studio or stage use, but no source in hand confirms the exact function (compressor, limiter, gate, or something else).
Beyond that, almost nothing is recorded. There are no production years, no circuit topology, no dimensions or weight, no owner feedback and no current market data. The CLS-22 appears to have been a modest, workmanlike piece from a company better known at the time for powered mixers and effects units.
- Type: signal processor (exact function unconfirmed)
- Input level: 50mV – 3V
- Output level: 775mV
- S/N ratio: 76dB min
- Format: single rack space
- Suggested list price: $595 (1982)
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