Summary: I never knew this site existed until today. I've been helping a friend to buy a proper sound system from a reputable dealer. I got curious about my speakers and hence I stumbled onto this site!. Yep, same deal, back in 1999, on a Friday after finishing work, the white 'Dynalab' van stops along side of me at the lights. Two guys talk to me about buying speakers which they have received quantity than what they had paid for and wanted to sell them cheap. Me and my friend in the car at the time were interested and we pulled over in a side street. Looked like a drug deal!. Anyway showed me the magazine, retailing about $2000 a pair. They wanted $1000. All I had was $600 in my account and they accepted it and followed me to an ATM. I got home and hooked it up to my old 2 channel amp with 25Watts per channel and they sounded crap. When driven loud, the tweeters sounded like they were going to burst as well as my ear drum. Had no bass. But I kept them. In 2003, I bought a Marantz amp, SR5000, 75Watts per channel of listening power, not max power and some cheap brands advertise. When I hooked it up to the speakers, all of a sudden they became a whole better and I became a happy man. Eventually I bought 'Energy' speakers for the active sub, centre and small ones for the rear. It's excellent for movies or DTS music dvd's. About average for listening to CD's. Works a lot better with an active sub when listening to a CD in stereo only using the Dynalab speakers. If I had the money, I would probably like to buy a pair of decent tower speakers which usually cost around $2000 a pair. But realistically, I don't and won't have the money. These will do just fine and have been for the last 9 years.
Strengths: For $600 a pair, not bad. Good clarity of stringed instruments. Try listening to the 'Eagles' concert DVD, Hotel California, in DTS, with a good amp, surround and active sub speakers. Really good stuff. Or watch 'Master and Commander' in DTS with the opening battle scene!. I appreciate them a lot better now whilst trying to help my friend spend $2000 on a complete surround sound system.
Weaknesses: You need a more powerful AMP. At least 75 Watts per channel. Also combine it with a good quality active sub woofer as it lacks good quality tight bass that only $2000 plus speakers can deliver.
Similar Products Used: For $600, not much. Perhaps 'Klipsch'. If you can afford to spend more, try listening to 'Energy' brand speakers. They are made in Canada. Not China like most well known brands of today, eg, B&W. And they sound awesome. There is a 'Energy' specialist in Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
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Summary: Paid 350 USD for the SDA 2.8 pair. Produces good sound - but is a power hog. You need a strong amp ~100 watts minimum to get real with this package. But strains under load. In other words, it has a narrow sweet spot. If you drive them higher you risk damage. Drive them too low and you get a muffed up - collided sound. Voice and dialog is weak, so you need a center speaker in addition to these speakers. The "white van" method of direct marketing does not lend itself to reputable organization. In the end, after 8 years of use, I put them back in the original box with hopes of selling them to a local collage frat house. When I bought them I needed some speakers and had little cash. Now I have much cash and need better speakers.
Strengths: For 350 USD - you get what you pay for. Last time I do something like that. However, they did do the job for 8 years. So am I upset? No. But if you want to make some heavy duty noise on the cheap; you can't beat these black boxes.
Weaknesses: Voice and dialog is weak.
Similar Products Used: Bose, Klipsch. Go for the Klipsch if you are going to pluck down some serious cash. You will be much happier.
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Summary: What a laugh. I've been trying to find infos on these speakers for ages and today thought I might have another go having moved with these speakers thrice in the past 6 years. When I read the story of how the con works, I was stunned...absolutely the same how I was scammed. Even the wording seems to be the same. After feeling cheated, I really had to laugh out loud. Ok, the money's gone, but after reading the reviews here I felt it wasn't worth spending another thought on it.
My speakers still work and although I believe that they are basically cheap crap, I have always enjoyed their sound. I hadn't felt cheated the past six years, so why should I bother now...except that from now on my knowledge will itch whenever I see them and I might even start finding faults just because I know...sometimes ignorance can be bliss.
I thougt of how to pay these folks back and tomorrow I'll tell this story to my pupils warning them about the white van mafia - this will also make my transition from the end of the holidays to the beginning of the schoolyear more beareable...(it will also be fun to read the faces of my pupils telling me of how stupid they think I am and that such a thing could never happen to them...).
Enjoy your speakers or get a pair of decent ones (which is what I will do as soon as I find signs of these Dnyacrap things giving up proper service),
Plastik
Strengths: Always sounded good despite being supposedly made of rubbish.
Weaknesses: Scam! Now that I know, I can't enjoy them anymore the way I've done before.
Similar Products Used: Luckily none.
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Summary: when it comes to these scamers u gotta reli trick them at the time my dad had some tannoy mercury m2 wich deliver u listening delight, when they came up to us my dad sed he wanted to try them out so they agreed and conected one tannoy and one dynalab the tannoys put the dynalabs to shame and the men were sweating, if the tannoys where £100 and they were selling it to us for £200 we knew that this is definetley a scam. so the scammers thinking thay were getting a good deal traded it for a worthless drum kit wich my dad scammed them into, so if u got these for £200 then u shuldent have payed that much but the power of these are great it is now 2007 and one of the tweekters blew up rite at the end of 2004 just going onto 2005, but the tannoys are still happy and not worn away, so in this round tannoy has taken the crown with the tannoy mercury m2
Strengths: Dynalab:
Powerful
Deep Bass
Tannoy:
Powerfull
Quality
Responsive
Deep Bass For Size
Only £100
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