Vintage Dahlquist DQ-10 // Speakers / Aural Custom Restoration

Another fully restored pair of the legendary Dahlquist DQ-10. There were only 27,500 pairs produced, and judging by the parts available on eBay, few remain. Aural is well-known for our Dahlquist restorations, and we may have outdone ourselves with this pair. We custom-fitted a beautiful pair of mid-century modern legs which absolutely complete the look. We wrapped the grilles in a beautiful black cloth with gold and silver weave, which accents the walnut legs and frame. We think this is how they should have rolled off the line.

RESTORATIONS

• Full 30-point service check
• Completely recapped with audiophile-grade capacitors
• Fitted tapered, oblique legs to finish the lines of the grille
• Refinished cabinet and grill frames
• Reclothed in a beautiful Black/Gold/Silver weave
• Complete frequency sweep
• Detailed

SPECS

Type 5 way, 5 driver loudspeaker system

Frequency Response 35Hz to 27kHz

Recommended Amplifier 60 to 200W

Crossover Frequency 400, 1000, 6000, 12000Hz

Impedance 8Ω

Bass 1 x 10" cone

Midbass 1 x 5" cone

Midrange 1 x 1.75" soft dome

Tweeter 1 x 0.75" dome

Super Tweeter 1 x piezoelectric element

Weight 30 lbs. ea.

LINER NOTES

"It was a serendipitous visit to stereo store Opus One on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh later that summer that would prove to be the lynchpin. A gentleman was playing what I first mistook to be a pair of modified Quads. While offering that familiar sense of coherence and midrange purity, here was real bass extension and impact, shimmering treble extension, and the most refined and detailed sense of soundstaging and imaging I had ever heard! Of course, it was Jon Dahlquist demonstrating his game-changing and wildly influential DQ-10s, the first dynamic speaker to use multiple drivers in an open-baffle, time-aligned array. The revelations of my time in front of those speakers on that momentous day have been impossible to shake. I’ve never looked back."

-Greg Weaver, The Absolute Sound, Fall 2019