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In Reply to: RE: B&W speakers, MyRef amps posted by madisonears on September 24, 2016 at 19:03:20
Well, not to burst your bubble on B&W and the DM6, but it was nowhere near the first product B&W imported into the US. They had the DM70 dynamic/electrostatic hybrids and the DM2 long before that. I started working for Audio Consultants in 1973, and they had the DM70's on display when I started.That speaker was released in 1970. The DM6 was a pretty popular model and sold well.
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Thanks for the background. I don't claim to be an audio historian. Do you know when that model was introduced? Perhaps they meant it was of the first 50 pairs of DM6? Or else it was another audio salesman lie. Guess the model number "6" should have been a clue that it wasn't their very first.
At any rate, they were obscure at that time compared to their current ubiquity. No one, and I mean no one I knew, had heard of B&W speakers. Even salesmen at the other three (3!) audio stores I frequented did not recognize the name.
The DM6 sold well because they were excellent speakers and once people heard them, they wanted a pair. A friend of mine bought a new pair after hearing mine, and I know his were slightly different, the design having already been revised. I sold my Yammie NS1000M's soon after buying the B&W's because they no longer sounded good enough, even run by my Threshold 400A, another fairly obscure product at the time.
Peace,
Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9
I completely agree with you about the DM6. I had a pair that I loved. Sold them to a friend. I think he still uses them to this day. Very musical and well balanced. Prior to that I was an IMF fan, and when I got the DM6s I couldn't believe the difference in coherence. The IMF's sounded like a bunch of separate drivers playing where the B & W's sounded like music. And certainly, B&W was quite obscure at the time in the US, though they had a pretty good presence in England and Europe. They were a KEF competitor, making them one of the bigger companies in the British market. I visited them in 1980, and their operation was pretty impressive, including the fact that they made all their own drivers. As far as I know, the DM 70 was introduced in 1970.
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