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The speakers use two 10 inch Dynaudio woofers, two 3 inch Dynaudio dome mids and the Dynaudio Esotar tweeter.
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Awesome room treatment!
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Definitely diffused!
Hopefully those aren't your speakers in your room. Beautiful though.
Oz
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- Winston Churchill
All the Duntech and DAL speakers I ever heard benefitted from placement away from room boundaries. The three times I visited John's rooms in Vegas he always demoed his speakers away from front and side walls. In fact, I always felt he advocated long wall placement for two reasons, 1) to allow more separation between channels, and 2) to keep the speakers well away from the side walls.
So Dan, if you have that flexibility, try giving your speakers a little more breathing room.
"For a nominal service fee,
you can reach nirvana tonight."
What MP3Lover said. Good looking job on the cabinetry.
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The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
Thanks, I should have removed the plant when i took the pic.
In the pic you can see my Vimak DS 2000 dac at the bottom of the rack.
This Dac came out in 1992. It has a built in volume control.
This is one of the best dacs ever. It sounds smooth as silk.
Google Vimak VS 2000 to see all the comments about it.
My full system is,
McCormack DNA-2 LAE amp
Krell KCT preamp.
Vimak DS 2000 Dac and Sony XA7es CD Player as transport.
Yamaha CT7000 FM Tuner from the 70s.
Sony 707es digital tuner
Tara Labs Temporal Contiuum speaker cables, JPS Superconductor + interconnects, Illuminati DX-60 digital cable
ESP and JPS power cords.
Pioneer CD recorders, Sony DVD recorder,
Blue Circle BC86 MkII Noisehound.
This is a filter with a 3 prong plug, which you plug in the wall,. This is great for getting less noise from your wall.
FINAL LABS DARUMA 3ll bearings, which I put under the Sony cd player and Vimak Dac
Aurios 3.1 bearings, which I put under the Krell preamp
Proton 31 inch CRT TV from the late 90s.
I used to have a pair of Dunlavy Millenniums, perhaps the best speakers in existence. I'd love to make a set of four driver ones with the same hourglass shape and some super high quality drivers.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
1. Were your cabinet step-back depths for the drivers based on actual dimensions from the chosen drivers?
2. Did you consider or experiment with deep wool felt absorption surrounding the drivers?
3. Are your crossovers first-order, designed to maintain time-phase coherency?
"For a nominal service fee,
you can reach nirvana tonight."
I actually bought the speakers from someone in 2002 for 3000 dollars.
Just the drivers alone cost so much money.
The speakers sound great.
The bass is fast and tight. The mids are very smooth.
The guy who built the speakers really knew how to build them good.
A friend of his built the cabinet.
After i heard them, I told him i'll buy them from him for 3000 dollars.
Next thing i know, he sold me the speakers.
I had the Dunlavy 1V speakers and the tweeter sounds recessed.
Dunlavy made an amazing crossover, but didn't use the best drivers.
He used all Vifa drivers on the 1V speakers.
Hi Dan,
I owned Duntech Princess (older sibling to the DAL SC-IV and IVA). They had Dynaudio woofers and tweeter but Scanspeak mids. I'm not an expert on John's various products but I'm not aware that he utilized all Dynaudio drivers in any model. And as you may be realizing here, his crossover design was a significant element in the resulting sound from his speakers. Also, I'm not aware that he utilized Dynaudio drivers in his DAL speakers but I'm not as familiar with them. He would not admit this but I suspected he intentionally sought out less expensive drivers with his DAL models. I do know he was being conscious of keeping the retail price down, a major reason he returned to the US from Australia (where Duntechs are still made) to set up production here and minimize shipping costs.
This is not to suggest that your speakers are not wonderful. I just raised my initial three questions because they seemed to be potential differences from Dunlavy designs as I know them.
"For a nominal service fee,
you can reach nirvana tonight."
I flew down to Colorado to listen to his lineup. The Millenniums sounded far and away better than anything else he had, even the V's and VI's. I think it was the large, non-rectangular box the drivers saw. He said the way he used the drivers, the most expensive ones didn't sound better.
The speakers were magic, with the bass far better than anything I've heard since.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
I'd like to add a fourth question - or maybe what should be the first question:
Is the crossover design identical to the original? Or is this a DIY home-brew effort using only identical drivers and similar looking cabinetry?
If you did your own crossover design, the questions M3 lover asked are perfectly valid.
So let us know! And do comment about the sound too...
Cheers,
Presto
Where are you putting your crossover points? I have something similar with two D76 mids and the esotar tweeter, however the crossover is external so I can tweek it. My points are 340 hz for the woofer and 3.5 K for the tweeter
Very nice!
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