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I know he was in a severe car accident in the 80s and had to check out of the business. I'm also aware of the Regmar folks on Long Island who took up the mantle of rebuilding Dahlquist speakers, but how about Jon?
Thanks,
rw
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rw,
I've spoken to him a few times after the accident. I can't help but to quiz him on very specific info, and he seems to recall everything. As far as I can tell, whatever the initial affects of the accident, and they were truly devastating, he's himself. You would've had to have spent time with him to know exactly what that means. You can ask "you know who" if you're curious. He knew him pretty well.
Several years back JD threatened to design something, twas actually amplification, but it never happened AFAIK. He's basically retired.
s.l.
Actually, that's who requested I ask. Would you mind sending me a PM?
rw
That's funny. I should be getting over there in a few weeks for a cool project that's been on hold for a while due to a fire at my house last year. I'll send an email.
I talked to a former DQ engineer at Grado as of two years ago alive but very sick been in a nursing home since accident
Jon Dahlquist is alive and living in Hauppauge NY. I fell upon this group as I am his neighbor and years back he told me the story that he invented the Dahlquist speaker. I have no knowledge of audio and it never occurred to me to look this up online until tonight. He might have had an accident in the 1980's; I do know he had an auto accident about 5 years ago. He was home bound a very long time and started driving again about 2 years. He rarely goes out, as he has a tough time walking and leads a reclusive lifestyle. He is really a nice man with a wonderful demure.
Hi one56day,
are you still a Jon Dahlquist's neighbor. Can you give us updated news about him? Do you think he would be happy to receive some message from people very much greateful to him for having invented the DQ-10s. In the affirative case, could you suggest a non intrusive way for contacting him?
Best regards
Franco
That's how I understood it also. One of his engineers now at Grado told me all about it. The wreck was in the eighties and it was bad.
...he was in Palo Alto,CA at a high end store promoting his new DQM speaker line - which was rumored to be a German speaker line with his name on it.
I had wanted Dahlquist to come to our audio society meeting that night but David Wilson was also there and invited him to dinner to discuss loudspeaker design and Wilson's new speakers. He went with Wilson.
Later on in the early 1990s, I received a pair of DQ-20s to review, and since I had been a huge fan of the original DQ-10s, I had great expectations for the 20s. In learning about the speakers and their design, there was no mention of Jon Dahlquist.
The DQ-20s did not fullfill my expectations.
Don't know if this is true but I found it:
http://forums.audioreview.com/archive/index.php/t-5803.html
Posted in July 2004
“I'm sorry but I know nothing about the new ones, except that they cannot be the brainchild of John Dahlquist, as he died a few years back. Actually, his career was cut short many years earlier by a horrible car accident that left him paralyzed, and brain damaged. It was quite a loss to the speaker design world, as he had a magic touch when it came to speaker design.”
The Social Security Death Index show no deceased JON Dahlquists, but 25 JOHNs. Could our man be one of them? Anyone know his last city of residence, birth year, or approximate date of death? That could help narrow it down.
He lived on Long Island, NY and date of death would have been after 1980. None of those hits matches.
Thanks!
rw
He and I were both mods over there, so I've sent him an email.
rw
of his death, but the Dahlquist DQ-20 and a few others were designed by Carl Marchisotto of Alon/Nola fame. Apparently Carl came in about the time of John's accident.
Stu
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Stu,
Carl was with DQ from '76 through the end of '90. Saul and Sid were still there when he started. After the original 10, Jon did very little design work, but quite a bit of experimentation. Very little of it got into any commercial DQ design. Carl did all of the essential design work including the DQ10 mirror image onward, including the DQLP1. Saul did design the cosmetics of that unit though. I left in mid '90, Carl in November of that year. That was last of the real DQ R&D.
Alon was started at the end of '91.
that he went into the real estat business. But that was never verified. and I haven't heard anything since (something like 20years ago)
Stu
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