I have an old pair of Dynaudio 70s. Still great speakers especially for rock but they play everything well, placed properly, of course.
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I had them both , starting with the A25s as my first sequential set way back in my college dorm days Both were the start of new mass-produced budget bookshelves geared at the new wave of Boomers trudging off to college. Both were okay for their time and pricepoint , but hardly memorable by today’s standards . Each had a signature presentation -- The ARs were better with classical and jazz; the A25s with boomy rock and pop of that era. I upgraded from them to JBL 100s with their own signature non-linear coloured exaggerated boomy bass and pumped-up treble "California " sound, that were even better at popular Geezer Rock than the DYNACOs. My takeaway: They were ok for their time when alternatives were very limited; that are only now purely nostalgia fan budget offerings that are easily bested by a bevy of contenders -- and even the pretenders -- in today’s offerings. Speaker design, materials, build and crossovers have greatly evolved .... not even close. |
Off topic here, but maybe relevant. I forgot that I had a pair of KLH Model 5 speakers a few years back. I had them recapped and rewired. The beveled cabinets were beefy as hell and the five drivers in a three-way configuration were vastly better than the Dynaco A35's... not even in the same league. I hadn't used the speakers for a while when I delivered them to devotee of vintage gear in San Francisco. I was floored when we hooked them up to his system... the bass response was incredible, truly. It is a pair of speakers I wished I had kept, profoundly musical, with avery deep LF response that no KLH 2-way speakers could approach. http://www.classicspeakerpages.net/IP.Board/index.php?/topic/4148-klh-model-5-vs-ar-3a/ |