Broadcast kép és hang, multimédia, hifi

When we first got to Danley we were met by Jeff, Ivan and Mike and a few other guys who I cant remember their names. After asking Ivan on the AVS Forums many many help related questions regarding my 3 DTS 10′S it was nice to meet him in person. He was working on the new Jericho Sub which all I can say is OMG. I was looking around the room and everywhere you looked was a different type of speaker or sub. I was amazed with how awesome and manly everything looked. The Danley Cabinets have that mean look.

Ivan helped me with all my amplification questions regarding the SH 50′S, SH 69 and the SH 100′S. It was very nice to pick his brain about different Home Theater Gear there at Danley. This man has a wealth of knowledge.

For the Trip I brought along a competitors pro audio speaker set so I could do a side by side comparison. They have an electronic switching system in their demo room which allows you to switch to different speakers on the fly without stopping. So you can immediately hear the difference.

We first started off with their smallest sub CS 30which has a single 12 inch driver. It was being played along with the SH Mini. You would be amazed at how well this small solution sounded. Then we switched from the SH Mini to the SH Micro and you could hear the small steps of improvement as we climbed the ladder toward the bigger speakers.

Next up Mike played several music songs with the SH 100′S which I was very interested in hearing since that is what I’m wanting to use for my surrounds. I couldn’t believe the fidelity coming out of that box which has a single 8 inch coaxial.

Then it came time for me to bring in my speakers which has 2 8″ inch drivers and a 8 inch coaxial with tweeter. When listened to it against the SH 100 and I couldn’t believe the difference. My speaker sounded very muddy compared to the SH 100. To explain this where you might be able to understand Ill say it like this. The sound coming out was in a straight path from the speaker to the listening area. It was very narrow. Kind of like if the speaker was 12 inches wide that’s how wide the sound was. The SH 100 was much cleaner and fuller. You couldn’t tell where the speaker was. The Danley sound comes to you in a wide pattern and envelopes your whole body. My speakers timing was off. In other words it seemed the 3 drivers were not hitting at the same time. That’s all I can guess. Basically it sounded like a transistor radio from the 70′s. My brother leaned over and said wow I cant believe how much difference there is.

Then Mike switched over to the Danley Flagship the SH 50′S. These speakers made mine sound like the cones were full of gobbed up mud. OMG I don’t know what to say. Without any other speakers on and no sub on these sounded so realistic. Again the sound came out wide and crisp and clean. The mid bass was overwhelming. These things sound great without a sub! We played many different types of music. JAZZ, Gospel, Rock and Roll and Opera. The voice coming out of the performers mouths were so real! It was amazing. Right then and there I knew I was buying these! Before going to Danley my brother and I auditioned very expensive speakers from Wilson, Focal, JM Labs, Revel and a few others at this very high end well known brick and mortar store. Heck they even used a 40,000 set of ribbon speaker cables! These SH 50′S were BEST In Show! I also want to comment on the look of The Danley Gear too while I’m at it. I was really impressed how nice a pro audio speaker could look. They have this raw mean look like don’t piss me off. 

The next thing we done was to hear the SH 69 which I want to use as a Center Channel. Like the SH 50 the fidelity was great. Its basically a SH 50 with different coverage pattern. Now came the fun part. Mike teamed the SH 50′S AND THE SH 69 and the front stage was crystal clean and just loafing along at 122 db. They were not even straining. Then we began to have fun integrating various sub woofers with this front stage. We were going from the dbh 218, TH 221, TH812 and a single DTS 10. Omega what fun it was. The TH 812 IS A GUT WRENCHING unit. On some songs my pants legs were flapping in the wind. The TH 221 has the look of a muscle man. With its open look into the massive 2 21″ drivers it says don’t piss me off. I could not believe how sweet this was. Many of you write about the fact they don’t go down to 10 HTZ. Let me tell you the TH 221 and the TH 812 give more room shake than a trailer load of DTS 10′S could ever do. In that HTZ area of mid 20′s to 45 it was in your face chest pumping bass. When I say this I mean it. I think either of these subs could make a person have a heart attack! We were also listening to the DBH 218 and its no slouch either.

The best part about the whole visit was how well we were treated at Danley. Here you had the co owner Mike Hedden , the magenious Ivan and Jeff giving up 4 hours to show us around. One thing that I never had to ask was “Could you please turn that up a little” lol. Mike had it cranking. What a real demo. We went from low volume critical listening to hard core rock and roll. The fidelity of all these speakers were unbelievable. If you want to test your high dollar speakers against theirs they encourage you to bring them along. Just be ready to sell them when you leave! My brother and I talked about the experience all the way home.

Here is what im ordering for now.

2 SH 50 for fl rf
1 SH 69 for center channel
4 SH 100′S for surrounds. One set will be the cinema version which has the slanted offset in the back of the cabinet for side surrounds.

I am thinking of selling my 3 DTS 10′S and replacing them with one single TH 221. I’m really concerned that it may knock off the bricks on my outside walls.

I have to get to bed now. My electrician is coming over at 7am to run 3 30 amp lines in preparation for the Danley Gear! Have a good weekend and I hope you find what I had to say enjoyable. I’m not the best writer but I know what my ears —-told me.

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A Danley Sound Labs részéről Ivan Beaver mutatja, be hogy milyen rendszert használtak a bemutató során.

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In the demo system, there is no eq applied to any loudspeaker and only high and low pass filters on the subs. There is no signal (time) alignment used. In the future we will do a little bit of alignment-but that is quite a project as the delay time would change with each combination of cabinets-so that is a lot of work to do.

So the demo room is a raw system. Yes it could be even better with a little bit of proper delay-eq etc, but we show it in its worse case.

With one exception (the Jericho horn), all of the Danley products are passive or available with a built in amp. Ok a couple are not available self powered as there is not place to put an amp-but most are available either way. They are not bi or tiramped (except in the active mode on most models)

The switching system is one that I built that is Crestron controlled. The signals run through a Biamp DSP-that is used to switch relays for the loudspeakers. This switching system also controls the moving lights that we use at trade shows to point at the loudspeakers. I built probably the worlds only relay analog controlled DMX light board for that.

So the signal from the amp-to the relays-then to the loudspeakers. So each loudspeaker is getting the same input signal-without eq or any other processing.

The source material comes from a bluray player-a media jukebox-CD’s or Ipod/computer inputs-whatever is needed. The sources go into a Denonreceiver and then out to the DSP/relay switcher system.

We typically use a wide variety of material of all musical forms from easy listening to hard rock to movies and so forth.

We use good quality material, because one of the problems with the Danley loudspeakers is that they reproduce what is coming into them very well.

While this sounds like a good thing-if the source material is not well recorded-those defects show up when listening. They are not “covered up/smeared” as with a lot of other loudspeakers.

This goes for both prerecorded and live material. If the source is bad- you will realize it-but if the source is good-it sounds really good.