I have listened and owned many top high end speakers. I think that Wilson Watt Puppy - Grand Slamm, Avalon Eidalon and Magneplanar MG20 are very good. Now I have Dunlawy SC 6 speakers. In my opinion they are the best speakers that I have listened. They have all the best qualities that the mentioned speakers have. All my friends say the same thing. I sincerely recommend Dunlawy SC 6 speakers.

Full range speakers,full deep bass,uncolored midrange with body and a fluid top end.Very well built,Bird eye maple is gorgeous.Can fill a BIG room with sound and vanish to reveal the fabric of music.Just awesome,bests some much more expensive cost no object speakers from well known companies!

Huge speakers,need a very large room to really breathe.Clowns who dont have a clue about accurate sound reproduction and post lies like the bozo who posted twice a score of 1/5! This person did not even listen to these with proper matching gear.Or he is deaf!

The Dunlavy SC-V and IV are world class speakers.Both can reproduce the live even with impressive accuracy and realism.You forget the speakers are there(and they are BIG,even the SC-V).

Driven by Audio Research tube monoblocks and a Wadia digital source the sound was breathtaking.Never did I hear any agressive(electronic signature),the dynamics were realistic.Instruments had a physical presence.The sound was beyond description(well real could describe it best).

The other great speakers I did listen to that are close,equal and maybe a tiny bit superior are the Dynaudio Evidence,both WILSONs and the JM LABS Utopia.All more compact designs,the Wilson WATT/PUPPY being my fave "small"
speakers in this group.

As far as large speakers go the SC-VI has only few other designs to challenge it,and very few that can,match its accuracy.

At 25 grand its not a budget speaker but it still represents a good value.When you consider how much more you have to spend to get this level of performance from other makers.Great job John Dunlavy.

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All heard in audioshops(I only have the Dynaudio Contour 3.3 at home),Wilson WATT/PUPPY,Wilson Grand SLAMM,Dynaudio Confidence 3,Dynaudio EVIDENCE,JM LABS Utopia

What an amazing speaker. Both the sc-v and the sc-vi . I couldn't live with the sc-vi's size so I settled for the sc-vs which are really close, except for the lowest bass notes. Truly dynamically unchallenged, breathing electrostatic feather like, life like uncolored mids, but blending the entire frequency spectrum together totally devoid of phase problems, and at the same time displaying such transparency with ease in the lowest bass notes. I couldn't ask for more and for the performance/price consideration it is simply an astounding product. I just wish they would do something about the products aesthetics. They performed their best when mated with either, AR ref 600 line, krell fpb, 300 and 600, Pass Aleph 0 amp and Jeff Rowland model 9t amps.
The whole realm of audio has gotten so much larger, thanks

The SC-VI is a precisely built speaker with a remarkable stage imaging. The sound is neutral and emotional. Although they are huge, they have a high efficiency which make them easy to be driven (I think 200w/ch can drive them pretty well). However, the bass is not deep enough but the overall performance is best of I ever heard when considering the price.

I have had a pair of Duntech Sovereigns for years, and they are wonderful speakers. But Dunlavy designed these in 1986 or so. I now have a pair of Dunlavy Audio's new Sigma I's, which are the company's premier SC-IV's, with better crossovers and a double cabinet. They are truly incredible. For the first time I am listening to a system with no apparent limit to either the top or bottom range. But be warned, they do not cover any deficiencies anywhere in the chain, and mercelessly reveal differences between recordings and equipment. It is as close to "being there" as I can imagine. I've been an audiophile since the late '50's--before stereo, and I believe I've heard it all.

This speaker model is the absolute reference in current loudspeaker designs, other than,of course the Millenium model from the same company. If one cares to examine all the scientific implications of the design goals and parameters of this particular pair of loudspeakers, he surely will appreciate this paradigmatic model of near perfection in audio engineering(to be quite perfect is impossible in this world), and he will no sooner realize that MR.John Dunlavy is well ahead of our time and that his knowledge and understanding in designing an electromechanical apparatus that can reproduce a recorded live sound phenomenon without altercation is far beyond that of any other present loudspeaker designers.

If there is any weakness, it is that at the present technology,no one can design a pair of loudspeakers that is literally distortionless and have a +/- 0dB frequency response.

I had never thought that it would be possible to come across such negative review on the sc-VI as the one written by Glenn below. Upon reading his review, I was immediately so much baffled by his comments that I had to take some time to recollect my senses to make sure that I had read his sentences correctly. The only sensible and logical conclusion which I could draw from Glenn's comments is either that Glenn had never listened to the SC-VIs when he wrote the review,or that he listened to a pair of improperly set up or defective SC-VIs; or,it could even be that Glenn is a very biased individual who dismisses any and all forms of objectivity and over the years has formed a certain conformed ideal of "high-end" sound which has been shaped by certain audio review publications and by some obscure backyard recording engineers, or maybe Glenn does not have very acute auditory perceptions(please do not take any offense should any be taken). Just for informative purposes, about thirty years ago, in a public demonstration conducted jointly by MR.Dunlavy and a renowned physics professor at the time who challenged MR.Dunlavy's claim that the Duntech Sovreign loudspeakers designed by MR.Dunlavy could create an indistinguishible auditory illusion of the original live musical event when playing back a recording of such an event. Well, during alternative blind A/B switching between the instrument playing and the loudspeakers reproducing the instantaneous live recording of such an instrument playing at the same time, the good professor and all others participated in the listening test were not able to tell whether they were hearing sounds from the playing guitar which was positioned half way between the pair of speakers or from the speakers which were reproducing the sound of the guitar played by a guitarist, and neither could they differentiate at what point the guitarist had stopped playing and the speakers started reproducing.

VERY SINCERELY,
JIAN X. of the CLAN WONG
very, very late night.
Spring,2001.

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Too many to list,but just for some references into which I made scientific inquiries, I shall list the following loudspeaker models: Wilson watt/puppy 3/2, Thiel 3.6, Talon khorus, Revel ultima and salon, Metaphor 2 and 5, Martin-logan request and sl3, some models from Magnepan, Paragon regent, B&W 801 s3, 801 Nautilus, Kef 104; and many, many others.

They look Good

Overall Sound, definition, bass response

I have to say that after listening to the SCIV's and SCVI's I was very dissapointed. I work as a professional CD mastering engineer, and went to listen to these after hearing that a couple of mastering facilities were using them. I know know why the quality of CD's has gotten worse over the last few years. I found that the speakers "hid" so much detail & flaw in the music, that it was a very bad representation of what the original recording should have been. Recordings that I know that had sibilance, and rumble, were smoothed over by the Dunlavys. Not for anyone wanting an accurate representation of the recording. Not recommended.

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Dynaudio, PMC. Quested

In Response to Mr. Jian, I am sorry to take a stab at the Holy Grail that this speaker seems to represent to him. I was just flabergasted that a speaker of this price range which I auditioned at a Dunlavy dealers' home, was so unimpressive.
I went with all the intentions of liking the speakers, and did not pre judge the gear in any way before my audition. I am used to listening to a custom set of dynaudio speakers in a very accurate room, so I admit I'm spoiled! But I must stand by my comments, they were not very good compared to what I listen to every day. I'm sorry that Mr. Jian feels a need to take take a personal stab at my listening skills, but I have clients all over the world who apparently like my ability to listen to music and trust me with their hard work.

Best speakers in their respective price ranges and the VI's beat everything at any price (the V's are real close)
Dynamic, image like life, huge but realistic soundstage, measure better than anyanyting else I have measured (many of the speakers that cost 3 times the price).

Set up properly, they are the best..only downsize is the V's and VI's are HUGE. But turn off the lights and you will be transported to the event.

the bad news is that of the 3 dealers I have visited, none made them sound like I have heard them in homes (mine included. I give virtually no credibility to any review that Stereophile writes but they have voted the DAL I's, IV's and VI's speaker of the year on three separate years. Dunlavy must be doing something right Up until the recent issue, he had NEVER advertized in Sterophile.

I own the SC-IV's. The VI's are incredible. The only problem is that they need a very large room; at least 18 x 24 x 8 given a good room and the correct associated equipment I know of no speaker that is better.
Ethan