Great speaker! Please people don't think a TFv6.0 is a TF600! They are to different models and years made. The TF600 was made in 1992/1993 and the TFv6.0's where made in 1996/1997. The grill cloth is not hard too come off the TFv line of speakers just unscrew the 4 screws on the bottom gloss cap and pull the cap off, then pull the cloth off slowly. (it is glued on, so you will have too glue it back in place.) roll the cloth down the speaker cabinet and there you go, you can now get too the drives! reinstall cloth and glue too cabinet with 3M 74 or 77 then put the top back on with the 4 screws. Is it some work yes, but is it hard no. You will never really have too take the cloth off because this speakers run forever! I have my DCM 10.0's and 6.0's from 1996 to now 2012! I had one problem last year with the 10.0 the Blue circuit breaker went so I put on a new one and they are go too go for 20 more years! This speakers had a 5year warranty new and they work way passed that. The fuses and circuit breakers you can get from PartsExpress.com. The DCM TFv line is better then most speakers today, so if you are lucky and can find one buy it and give it a try! Models of TFv 6.0,8.0 and flagship 10.0.

I bought these locally 3 years ago on eBay for a good price (can't remember what I paid) and picked them up in Chicago. I figured I would listen to them for a while and trade them for something else if wern't moved by them. I still have them, love the sound, look great, surprizing bass. Great speakers! All that the other reviews state are true and then some.

Strengths; rubber surrounds on the drivers means they won't be rotting on you. Great looking speakers. Sound fantastic.


Weekness;
If you ever had to remove or replace the socks I think it would be tough to get them back on correctly. No bi-wire capability.

rock is good, clean and punchy
jazz is like its in your home
symphonic music sounds like you are sitting in the middle of the orchestra
vocal music is scary its so good


i like the set up and the size but some feel its too big

if there is a weakness its too much bass but that can be taken care of with the receiver bass knob or a basic EQ unit


These were made when the company was in Ann Arbor Mich before the sale of the company or the demise of it whichever happened.

I have heard more recent DCM speakers and found them to not have any where near the same qualiy of sound that these models have.

If you find the tf 600-700
or the best of the lot the time window BUY THEM!!!

DCM Time Frame 600

Actually one of the top sounding speakers in the $1000 range, better than some in the $2000 range as well. If you listen to these with vocals only such as take 6 or the nylons you can actually hear the breathing and spittle in the voices its that clear!!!

Jazz cymbals and higher harmonics in the 12-15kh region are just crystal clear and if you know the difference you can tell if the stick hitting the cymbal is wood or plastic tipped. These speakers are that clean and clear, desroys the bose 901 series which sound like crap in the mid and upper range compared to these, have challenged friends with AR, JBL, Infinity, Polk, Bose am5 and 901, NHT and many other brand names and nothing compares to the clarity and punch of these things. I recently added the powered sub woofer and was just knocked out of my chair at the added bass( which really isn't needed)

If you can find a pair of these in good shape they are worth the money!!

Customer Service

15 years used daily, moved 5 times and not one need for customer service

Very Clear

No weakness.

I had these speaker for a week and it sounds great. Bought these at a pawn shop for dirt cheap. But it sounds like I'm at the concert. Five Stars baby

Extreme nice midrange, and incredible good soundstage. The sound is very well-balanced.

There is no real weakness. The only thing i can think off is the fact they don't have be-wire capability's.

Very nice speakers. They sound very spacey, and cristal clear. Low frequenties are very well controlled, and very deep too. Where these speakers really prove to be top of the line, is in the midrange. I never heard speakers before wich sounded as clear, and narural as the Timeframes V6.0 in the midrange area. Everyone has his own opinion, but I think they look great!

Similar Products Used:

*Infinity pos 1 (or something like that, an older model) *DCM timeframe V8.0 (the bigger version; 8inch woofers in stead of 6inch. They don't sound that much different) *B&W DM 110 (No way near the DCM's. They kost not even half the money.. hehe ) I've heard dome other newer models of B&W, Mission, KEF and JBL, but they didn't sound as good as the DCM's.

Got these at Goodwill for twenty bones and they completly rock. They look a little beat up but no one can beleive how they sound or that I got them at Goodwil. Now I use them in my fraturnity house and they take all the abuse we can dish out

Got these at Goodwill for twenty bones and they completly rock.

These speakers are excellent and quite affordable. Overall construction is very good, weighing in at 40 lbs. The look of the speaker is different from many traditional designs, because the grill wraps around the whole speaker. It also contains 1 6" driver for bass, 1 6" driver for the midrange, 1 3/4" front firing main tweeter, and two 3/4" ambient field tweeters in the back of the speaker. Frequency response is 35Hz-20,000khz. Sound quality is smooth and relaxing, with excellent imaging, enhancing channel separation. These speakers match well with a subwoofer, especially the DCM-712. If you buy these speakers, you won't regret it.

I have had these speakers for 5 years now. They never fail to impress me, especially at the $650./pair price tag. I use them for music and HT. The imaging/staging is really quite extraordinary. I use them with a velodyne 12" sub. Absolutely stunning. If this is your budget range, or even if you were shooting higher up, do yourself a favor and give these a listen first, you won't regret it!

Bought a pair of TF6.0's back when they were called TF600, have had them almost 6 years. I am totaly pleased with them. When I bought them, I was comparing them to a pair of B&W 803 speakers costing almost three times the price of the TF600's. In every way the TF600's out performed the B&W's. Soundstage was by far deeper and, you could hear a true vocal depth, no chestiness. The B&W's put forth a real honk to male voices, depth of the music was also shallow compared to the TF600"s. Use them in a Home theater as well as two channel music. Paired them with the OW-2 surround speakers also from DCM and, center channel duties are performed by a Polk Audio CS 400, it had a little more response then the DCM center had and, it matches very well with the DCM's. Using a Velodyne VA-1250X subwoofer, aother steal at $750. Before spending a lot more money for far less, give the DCM TF6.0's a listen, you will not be disapointed.

I bought these six years ago when they were called Time Frame 600's. They are the best in the 500-1,000 dollar range. Over the last year or so, I have been looking at other speakers to upgrade to. Haven't found anything yet that sounds as good at the 1,000 dollar price range. Guess I'll hang on to these for another six years!