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Re: 10 Best Speakers-What do you think

Interesting story. I was quite leary of their looks at first. I only had the picture on the Dunlavy website to look at. My speakers look a bit different than the picture. They have a smaller waist which makes them more graceful looking. As soon as I saw them in person I immediately liked their looks.

Perhaps you would like to hear more on how the SC-V sounds compared to the Millennium. Actually I was disappointed in the SC-V. The female voice seems just slightly weak. My audiophile friend says it is those 3 inch upper mids struggling to produce the lowest octive of the female voice. Perhaps some important tone is right in the middle of a crossover.

But the bass of the SC-V was quite good. My friend nailed it when he called it effortless. Those two 12 inch woofers can really move the air. However the Millennium goes deeper and is yet tighter. The non parallel internal walls of the Millennium contribute to this. They give the speaks an incredible cleanness of sound that is hard to describe. It is bourn out in the waterfall plot, the Mill is cleaner than any other Dunlavy, or any other speaker I know of for that matter.

I would really like to read a review on this speaker. However it is deep in a nitch. Quite expensive to produce with that odd shape. The factory didn't seem too anxious to build up a set for me. They kept pushing the SC-VI. Factories are not the ideal place to produce single units. However John Dunlavy himself measured and tweeked my speakers himself.

I have two dreams. One is the NASDAQ hits 5000 again ;) the other is Dunlavy will produce a super Millennium with the one inch dome, two 6.5 inch mids and two 12 inch woofers. It would weigh 400 lbs and be 7 feet tall. Flat to 15Hz +/-0.5dB. Anyway, they are working on a digital speaker that will be pretty much perfect. You feed it with a digital data stream and it has internal digital amps with some digital corrections to eliminate all frequency, phase, and timing errors.


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