Who remembers the Dahlquist DQ-10's?

First heard them at Opus One in Pittsburgh, where I grew up, when they were introduced. The owner, Tasso Spanos, was a lovely, passionate guy who really knew music and loved good quality gear. In the day, he was a big advocate of double KLH 9's and Marantz tube amps, then as the industry evolved in the early '70s, became an ARC dealer. The Dahlquists were featured as a top choice in his store, which was located on the main shopping boulevard in downtown- a choice location (but for the streetcar noise). Tasso had the first Monks cleaning machine I ever saw in action, was very early in the high-end video thing- using the Advent projection TV with some sort of delay line for faux multi-channel sound and was quite clever about putting together systems. His shop was one of my first experiences in the so-called "high-end" at the commercial level, apart from the stuff some folks were DIY'ing in their basements. 

Whart - I knew I liked you for some strange reason, could not place my finger on it.  Now I know!  A fellow Pennsylvanian!  Born on the other side of the state, in Philly!  Small world!

I owned a pair in the mid '80's - '90's, that I bought from Randy Cooley when he was in Venice 1/2 block from the boardwalk, they were mylar capped and mirror imaged. I drove them with a John Iverson Eagle 2 amp that I bought from a salesman at Dimension In Stereo in Torrance, he said he had worked at Electron Kinetics and modded them. The front end was a Luxman C-10 pre, Luxman T-10 tuner, Teac 3300 SR and a Thorens 165 table & Grado cart.

I remember that the local high-end store in Ann Arbor (college days), Mich. featured the Polk 10, DCM Time Window, and Dahlquist DQ-10.  I wasn't familiar with any of those brands prior to that first visit.  All three made an impression, but the DQ-10 was the one that lust worthy.  It was also furthest from my virtually non-existent, college student gear budget.

martykl - Too funny.  Now that you mentioned it, I too remember the DCM time windows.  I did not like the shape of them but the sound as I recall was pretty good compared to others.