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In Reply to: RE: The DQ 10 Reconsidered Updated posted by blahblah on August 30, 2023 at 14:26:49
and affordable to many.
I worked part time in college at a shop that sold them along with Magnepan. Honestly, I preferred (and purchased) similarly priced MG-IIs for what I considered an even greater sense of "verisimilitude" with acoustic content.
The legacy remains with the young assistant who later designed a number of Dahlquist speakers including the DQ-20: Carl Marchissotto who is now responsible for Nola.
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or is this a remembrance that has forgotten how it really was
When used properly that model piezo can sound pretty good. Discussion of such use can be found on AK.
I've sampled piezo tweeters before in audiophile type speakers (Melos) and quite frankly, they suck. No need to explain anymore.
I recall a number of mod kits for the treble of the DQ10. A friend of mine, George Bischoff(Melos, Pipedreams, etc.) told me he sold over 300 kits that replaced the piezo and tweeter dome with a planar ribbon tweeter. And I don't remember details but I do know there were other mod kits also.
there is limited output from them. If they has used the Piezo to cover the entire range, sure that would be painful but they didn't.I'd like to swap in a couple Magnepan ribbons from the Mini to replace the Motorola.
Edits: 09/02/23
The true ribbon Maggie tweeters in their top models were great. The planar(not ribbons) tweeters in their other speakers were not as good.
The mini has a 7-10 inch ribbon tweeter. would fit nicely in my DQ-10s.
I was friends with the Pipe Dreams designers and at one point they wanted to use the large Maggie ribbon tweeter but Maggie declined understandably. One friend thought it was the best tweeter available then.
I miss that place in Dunellen, there was none like it
The 9 PM Wednesday beer parties were legendary but sane. I miss hanging around there that ended with the move of Melos to Las Vegas.
disconnected one of the wires to them. We sold a bunch. Multiple pairs to one sad, but memorable customer.
In an interview, Carl said the Dahlquist ownership following Jon's death required him to use a $7 tweeter across all models. With Nola, he says all the choices are his. Like the use of line array ribbon tweeters.
It was nevertheless a substantially different sounding "non-box" than what was prevalent in that day. I previously had Braun LV-1020s and modified mine by building similar open baffles for the upper drivers atop the inverted cabinet. Dr. Guenther actually heard mine. Said the upper drivers were initially out of phase with the woofer. Oops!
After first hearing tri-amped Tympani IIIs when I was 17, I was seduced by the lifelike image size of tall line sources. Dipolar at that. There was no turning back.
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