Does It Make Sense to Purchase Dunlavy Speakers


Audio-Video Logic has purchased the complete stock of Dunlavy speakers and is selling them at very attractive prices. Dunlavy is no longer in business and I'm concerned about repairs if needed. Dunlavy drivers are individually matched, ane then pairs are matched for the two speakers, finally the crossovers are hand tweaked for final matching. Would appear on the surface that if a driver goes bad the "match" is gone forever. Comments??
russ_l

Showing 1 response by crazykennif61e

Jwin,

Hi, I read your post about the cc-2 center channels as I also was contemplating this purchase as well to better match my SC-4's. I was currently using the SC-1AV as my centers and I find them less than perfect, even after placement tweaks. I was concerned about the Dunlavy's linear arrangement of their Midwoofer-Tweeter-Midwoofer drivers for their center channel speakers (except the HRCC) when the speakers are on their sides (horizontal), hence yielding nulls in the crossover frequency range and inferior sound dispersion patterns.

Did you find this to be the case in your HT setup with your newly acquired center channel?

I contemplated getting the Rocket RSC-200 center channel to replace my dunlavy sc-1a, as it was cheaper than the CC-2 but I was concerned about timbre matching. I just love the driver array arrangement on the RSC-200 center channel. The only reason I mention this is because I read on another forum about somebody auditioning the Rocket speakers line and found them similar to the Dunlavy sound. I haven't auditioned the rockets though.

Regards,
Ken