Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
I reviewed these for a friend - they sound like those cheap bass boxes you get from off brand car audio shops, but with a couple of tweeters tacked on. They don't even have soundproofing in the cabinet to help with the bass, making it mushy and awful.

These are worth about £50 at the most. If you like music loud and don't care for quality, they'd be alright at this price, but they're inefficient so you'll need a massive amp to drive them.

To the people comparing them to Bose - is this a joke or are they fake reviews? Bose are a joke in the home hifi market - the only good stuff they make is pro-audio for clubs and concerts. Dynalab is nothing like this. Remember - these sound like £50 speakers. Nothing at bargain audio shops like Richer Sounds is as bad as this. Nothing.

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
I got stopped by the dudes in a white van claiming they had CLUB speakers that they ordered to much of, told me how great they were and regular price of 1200, mine for $800. I wanted speakers for my new home kenwood receiver high end in 1998. So, I offered them $300.00. they took it acting like I stiffed them.
I kept reading comments over the years on how crappy the Dynalab 2.8 are. I have had them for 11 yrs now, they look like hell (I'ive moved 5 times since then), but they have lasted longer then my Kenwood receiver, Harmon Kardon Receiver and they are now on my HK 100 watt stereo (not a/v) They still sound great to me, never farting, I have had it cranked almost all the way. I keep thinking to myself, "if people think these are crap. what are $1,000.00- $1,500.00 Klipsch, Bose or JBL's gonna sound like". I keep wanting to get GOOD, QUALITY speakers but every time, i think mine are good enough and buy something else, like my $250.00 sennheiser headphones. Did I get lucky, or are Quality speakers, really that good?I don't get it. You don't know how many times people have called them Bose at party's. swearing they are stereo nuts and these speakers are Bose. HA-HA

dakatabg

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
I bought those speakers from a pawn shop for exactly $22 in Chicago! I got a great deal! I really liked the speakers! I used them for a month and something but than I found out they are the white van scum! The speakers are not bad and they look very nice! They sound good just not enough bass! I sold them after I found out they are the white van because I like to have only good brands! Otherwise nice speakers!

Ron2TheZ

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Found these in a small resell store. One was marked 15$ and the other had no price. So I asked the guy up front if it was 15$ for the pair or each. He says the guy who owns the booth owes him rent, I can have both for 15$. I have super high end audio equipment and a small recording studio. I hooked up a top of the line Marantz for my video viewing and was pleasantly surprised. Good, clean sound for watching concerts. Nice seperation of the sonic spectrum. I haven't driven them to the max, but that is not what I got them for. I have an old Sansui G8000 and 4 Bose 901's for my music, so I know good sound.
No white van! I feel dissappointed I don't have a scam story. How someone could look at these and think they would retail for more 200$ must not be experienced at comparing speakers. The vinyl over the wood is thin, the speaker screen is the cheapest you can get, the port can be pulled out by hand, woofer suspension is soft rubber, not carbide like in high end speakers, even the paper sticker on the back is cheap. All indications pointing to mediocre craftsmanship at best.

CASSANE

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
3.67 of 5, 6.00 votes

Price Paid:  $600.00 from White Van

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.