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RE: Danley Sound Labs

Posted by endust4237 (S) on June 5, 2008 at 16:06:13

In Reply to: RE: Danley Sound Labs posted by jweiss on June 4, 2008 at 15:44:29:

Probably I am of one of the very few who has quite extensive experience with some Danley speakers in my home and it makes me really proud. I planned to write a kind of "review", but different projects and my daily job of dealing woith pro audio and broadcast television system design did not let me to complete it. Yet. It is coming anyway :-)

Few words about my experience.

To get the best form the Danley speakers you need a stand which puts them a bit higher than usual, a bit above your normal listening position at least in my room. I was using them on an Ikea table first, then I could get a Towersonic pro adjustable height studio speaker stand, which made them even better.

SH 50s
The SH 50s are really fantastic. I sold my Avantgarde Trios after living them for a while. The coherency, dynamics are just amazing. I do not think any high-end audio speaker I have heard in the past can come close. Period. They are not romantic, sweet, dry - actually they do not have a sound at all. They need some room, something like 35-40 sqm is the minimum according to my experience.

SH 100Bs
Not as coherent as the SH 50 (at least in my room), but goes deeper. An 8 inch broadband speaker with 4 pieces of 8 inch bass speaker wrapped around the broadband speaker. 100x100 dispersion, not 50x50 as the SH 50s. I found it a bit more room and (surprise) wife friendly. Really universal speaker, I like Mahler, Wagner but The Doors and Led Zep as well with them. Live jazz recordings can be absolutely live, like Scott Hamilton's In Concert CD. Shows a bit more weight then the SH 50 and for me sounds a bit more balanced when I am listening music late night. A speaker for the rest of your life. Can not be stretched or pushed in a normal room listening. I really, really like it.

SH 50 with a pair of TH-112 sub, integrated with a DEQX digital cross over/ room corrector
If you have at least 70-80 sqm room, and like it full bodied, do not look further. I can not imagine any speaker on any price which sounds more real. First time in my life when a big band recording (made in a music school in DSD with a Korg MR1000, few kilometer from our home) was played at a friends big 100 sqm room, I felt a big band could be really reproduced to give me absolutely the same feeling as I felt at the concert few weeks ago. Actually I did not have to use the room corrector part of the DEQX, it was just perfect. The timing and integration of the Sh 50 and the pair of TH 112 was perfect too.

SH 100
Big surprise. An 8 inch broad bander which can make it loud and very musical. For the price very difficult to find any other single way speaker sounding more real and balanced. One of the most ideal speaker for a high-end home theatre. I have a musician friend who is using them for his rock and blues band playing live and at home as well. When he wants a bit more extension down, he is using it with the small TH-28 sub and a Behringer digital crossover. He can not be happier. The SH 100 can give you a taste what the bigger Danley speakers can do.


Generally the Danley speakers are the most natural and lifelike speakers I have ever heard. I do not know if there are any "better" speakers around. They do not make the music and the recording artificially sweet or dry, they will show what your system can squeeze from the recordings, they will show all the problems and compressions of the bad recordings, but on a very friendly way, they do not stand between you and the music, if the music is interesting for you can enjoy it even against the problems of the recordings. It is strange: they are one of the most informative and revealing speaker of my life, but the most friendly at the same time .

They are not about "detail", "3D space", and hifi things like this. You can focus on these terms if you want, and find details you have never heard in your system, but they teach you how to focus on the music instead of the sound of the recording.

I was using them with a 2W Yamamoto 45 triode amp, with a 15W Leben EL84 tube amp, with my 10W battery driven Altmann BYOB and with some more than 1000W pro amp, like the MC2 Audio MC1250. No problem with any of them. The tapped horn sub bass part of the SH 100B had an extraordinary control of bass cone movement, so the bit more "loosy" bass of the tube amps were not a problem at all. The 2W Yamamoto is a beautiful combination with the SH 100B. Tone and responsiveness to die for. However the real deal is the MC2 1250. It is so real and lifelike with the SH 100B, you seem to forget completely what kind of device you have in your amp, is it tube or SS or is it Memorex :-). Just does not matter anymore.

The Danley speakers will sound very good with any kind of electronics and cables. One of my other musician friend using an SH 100 with a pro amp and a 100 USD microhifi system as a CD player. They are never bright or fatiguing and of course in a normal home environment you will never use more than few percent of their real volume and loudness capability :-)

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