Dunlavy SC-VI

I know..I know...perhaps overkill for surround, but I love it. (My wife says I'm crazy). I have a big home theater room about the size of a very deep three car garage with a high ceiling.
What happened was I originally purchased the Vs and was extremely pleased, but always kept asking myself, "If these sound great, what would the VIs sound like in my room?" I took the plunge. They arrived and I am in heaven. I thought about selling the Vs, but when I hooked them up as rears, there was no way I could part with them. I am a two channel afficionado and on SACD, the VIs sing. But I also enjoy the DVD, DVD Audio, and DTS 5.1 formats and together the Vs and VIs get a real workout. I am in sonic bliss. Besides me, my family and/or guests receive a lot of enjoyment from the setup.
(Sorry for the late response, but I've been out of town and had not checked the web in a few days.)
Happy listening!!

If you tell me that in addition to having both sets of speakers and a very big HT, that the HT is also positioned such that you can play it at any level you want, day or night, without disturbing anyone, I think I'm going to have to stop reading this thread.......

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Hi,

I have SC-VIs (iniated this thread) and tried the Sigtech for a couple of weeks, but it was not able to solve a bass hole of 10db that my room produces at 35-50hz. I added a Z-systems loaner but it was not transparent enough so I sent both the Sigtech and Z-systems back. Then I decided to try the CARA 2.0 and maybe later the Tact RCS.

I got this (US$50) great accoustic simulation/optimization program called CARA 2.0, see Stereophile review.
This program comes with a bunch of speaker models, but no Dunlavy model. I have created a simple SC-VI model but it is VERY far from the frequency response of the Dunlavy SC-VI. It has already improved the speaker positioning.

I sent an e-mail to Dunlavy a couple of months ago asking them to make a correct model (I can buy and send them the $50 program if they want...), but Dunlavy never responded.

Can somebody convince Dunlavy to have them make this simulation model? It should not take much time and would be great given that these speakers are very sensitive to positioning and this great program does speaker position optimization IF you have a good model of the speaker.

If anybody has a good (near to the real frequency response) CARA 2.0 model of the SC-VI, can you e-mail to vpnogueira@yahoo.com?

Thanks,

Vicente

I suspect the dip was between 32 and 45 Hz. One of the advantages of the SigTech (or the TAct in this case) is to carefully move the speakers and listening position and remeasure until you can reduce the amplitude of the dip in the low end.

I had the exact same problem (I use a SigTech, and was able to get the dip to about 5db by moving stuff around. The SigTech would fix it all but I chose to only fix part of it (modified the target curve).

Having Dunlavy send you measurements is not going to solve the problem.