Dunlavy resurrection?
Visually and audibly wicked speakers. If this comes to a start, please take care of the customers. the customers are why a company is in business. Offer a good solid warranty and make service priority, then the customers will be lined up to purchase. treat hard working customers like the old company, and it will end up the same way as the first. A friend of a friend owned a pair, they were impressive to say the least. Hope everything works out for you! such a cool business to get into. |
vine, I owned and enjoyed a pair of Duntech Princess (older sibling to the SC-IV/a) for 19 years. No problem with the Dynaudio tweeter in all that time. After John moved back to the US and opened DAL I spoke with him a few times at the Vegas CES. He was an old school engineer and did not believe in "exotic" components. Seeing how complex the crossover was in my Princesses (visual look, I'm not an engineer) I always wondered if better parts might have offered improvements to an already wonderful speaker. Regarding resurrecting DAL, I can foresee two problems. The obvious one being the size and weight of most of his models. It seems that trends are demanding smaller speakers. Whatever market that still exists for such large speakers may already be filled by current companies. Also there is how much shipping costs have increased. JD initially moved back to the US from OZ to build a new Duntech model in the US to save shipping costs so it could be priced more competitively. When that failed he separated from Duntech and opened DAL. I offer that only as an example of impacts of distribution costs. The other problem is potentially what "evolution" in design have you developed? Have you retained John's basic critical time/phase principles? If not then you really wouldn't have a new Dunlavy speaker. |
Evolution in design entails not using incredibly cheap cabinets, 39 dollar tweeters, entry level capacitors and ceramic resistors. I helped in the design of the SC3a. That was my inroad to buying the company. I have a background in electrical engineering. I'm quite aware of John and his accomplishments. I knew him for over 10 years. |
If you want to know what's special about Dunlavy speakers, click on the link and goto the bottom of the page to the "waterfall" plot. This is the cleanest I've seen (a late-gen Wilson Watt had a similarly clean graph albiet with a lower amplitude). Another element of this speaker's sound is the tight (hand adjusted) matching of driver/crossover components. From Stereophile: "Pair matching: better than ±0.5dB up to 15kHz." Comparing the response of both test speakers. Amazing. Dunlavy Audio Laboratories SC-IV loudspeaker Measurements | Stereophile.com |
