Dahlquist speaker models, question/experience and today

I cannot help you with any comparison but your mention of Dahlquist speakers brings back memories. In college, a small military school, my roommate had a pair Dahlquist DQ-9s with an NAD amp, Nakamichi tape deck and Bang and Olufson turntable. This was a pretty big deal for a dorm room system. It was my first real experience with hi-fi and the DQ-9s were awesome in out little cell-like room. I suspect they would have sounded much better in a less confined space.

We used to obsess over high end cassette tapes and all the settings on the Nakamichi for recording from vinyl


I saw my old roommate last year and asked him about the speakers and he no longer owned them.

N80 great story - that’s starting out wayyyyyyy high :-) is he still an audiophile?

i rebuilt / upgraded many pair of DQ-10 over the years

I bought a nicely restored and upgraded pair of DQ-10's with custom-stands from a nearby seller. $375! A major bargain! And still competitive with today's four figure speakers! 

I'm not sure if he is still an audiophile or not. I don't see him much and life had been hard on him and I did not ask last time we met.
I'm assuming Dahlquist is not longer in business?

N90 sorry to hear that

no they faded away after Jon , I think they had some decent sounding gear but never replicated or chose to extend the DQ-10 magic...