John Dunlavy may not be with us much longer.

Late 2006 I met Kiat Low, the owner of Duntech (Australia) and he told me that John lives in a nursing home now. He suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

What shame, perhaps one of the great minds in audio. I do hope he's happy.

His designs were some of the best this industry has ever seen. Hopefully speaker designers will continue to follow and improve upon his principles of time and phase coherence.

John Dunlavy was a true pioneer and a legend..

As far as we know, he's not dead, Tony.

John passed away a few weeks ago. Today I have contacted Kiat Low (Duntech Australia owner, see above) again and now and I'm very sad and sorry that I have to tell you that John Dunlavy passed away in January 2007. John was without any doubt one of the greatest people in the audio industry! We will never forget him.
The good news is that Duntech continues the development of loudspeakers based on John's remarkable designs and Kiat is currently working on an update of the SC-IV/A, called "Princess". Duntech's new smaller model is already better than the Wilson W/P 8 by the way.