Danley Sound Labs SH50 || Can you hear me now?

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[LifeAsISeeIt]

Shout out to Danley. Thanks for being transparent and sharing. Erin, appreciate the hard work.

[jked]

Thx for the review. It's fun to do something different every once in a while.

[MyFatherLoves]

You can treat it the same but it needs DSP. As I'm sure they told you or alluded to, this were designed for super low distortion, excellent directivity, and TOL spacial information. They didn't care too much for getting super smooth FR.

It's a dream to own some DSL speakers. Personally, I'd like an LCR of SM96s. I'd even take an LCR of SH60s.

I'm especially interested in the SBH line. It's like having the perfect line array in your room but with zero lobing and balled up into a synergy horn.

[Heywoodj]

I owed 5 of these at one point...the only reason why I sold them was because they were the install version and difficult to move. I have their sm80 variant, which I can deploy one per side for a decent sized outdoor event ( say 700-1K) people... 80 deg conical dispersion 12” and horn... killer

[tosinmacaulay]

Wonderful and informative video. Thank you Mr. Erin

[alphaplus]

Love what's I'm seeing I'm going to pick up 2 for my very large basement....

[mikewaters]

Awesome Erin. Couldn't wait to hear your thoughts with this one- really useful information. Thank you for all your hard work to get measurements for this one- it didn't look to be an easy task.

[jked]

As stated previously, been in pro audio, it is interesting that they would want to do near field measurements. Pro speakers typically "sum" farther out since they are designed to project far distances. That said, even though it is passive, I would use an open architecture DSP to time align the drivers for better clarity. Being that the speaker has a symmetric driver arrangement, it would respond well to time alignment. And yes, all pro speakers are expected to use some eq.

[annebokma]

They do make some nice studio monitors as well, maybe you should get a pair of those to play with

[raidendigital]

I was thrilled by this, because I was imagining a speaker like this for the past month. I was contemplating making a custom surround speaker to go with JBL Studio 590 / 570 front soundstage. Something that would up into the rear corners of the room like an OG Imax theater. What if I take a Tenex Compression driver from JBL Eon (Same one as Studio 530 but made in Mexico) and put it into a big horn, then build a bass driver into one of the sections of the horn? Wow a crazy three way PA speaker exists like that. There needs to be more speakers like this. Where astatically it's just a horn. It looks amazing. A little bookshelf speaker built like that would be neat.

[RollingRagu]

I visited Danley in about 2010. At the time, he was offering the DTS10 subwoofer as a kit for home theater use. I have been using a pair of those since. I can't remember names now, but one of the employees invited me to his personal home theater. His was a small room, roughly 14x16. It was clearly dialed in by a pro and sounded fantastic. I admit to not having much technical knowledge. However, in comparison to what I was currently and still using (Klipschorns) I didn't hear enough benefit to justify the price difference. Switching to Synergy would have doubled my investment. That said, I spent $2k on the Danley subs and am quite sure I couldn't find this performance for similar money any other way. Very cool stuff they are making. @erin, not sure where you're located, but we may be close to each other. You have an open invite to visit my theater if you'd like to hear Danley subs in a home. Regards, Tony

[supercompooper]

I have a pair of these in my studio and they are a riot. Danley folks are fun and they even painted the insides JBL Blue for me 🤪

[Ronildoquek]

Good work, Erin 💪🏻💪🏻. Thank you for the information, much appreciated

[cerchioindustries]

Can't wait to view this, if I can be so cheeky to ask any ETA on the Kii 3 review?

[jonnynotsorotten]

Love that you measure these more unusual designs! When you do your ground plane measurements, how much room do you need around the speaker and the mic? How far away do you stand with your computer so you don't get reflections in the measurement?

[brettus]

I'm lazier than you Erin which is why I watch all your reviews here and read your website later while waiting for appointments etc lol.
Before returning it you should have stuck it in the back of your ute (pickup), parked in your street and brought out your neighbours 10 houses away for a critical listening demo...

[ubacow]

Do you think you can get Tom Danley to let you measure the HRE1 and ILE3? They bring them around on the Danley Road Show around the US as well

[DonLee]

High end PA speakers are narrowing the gap between high end home speakers and commercial speakers. I’ve owned the M2 and loved them very much. I’ve also owned the RCF TTL6a and L’acoustic Syva and wow they sounded amazing. The gap is narrowing. The RCF looks like a typical PA with a metal grill and large that doesn’t have WAF. However, the Syva has a slender design that has the option of wall mounting which is nice and they have color options like white or beige to match your walls. The TTL6a sounded bigger and fuller but the Syva sounded more flat and has tighter bass that extended lower. They both sounded great that I sold my M2’s. I’m still exploring more PAs since I haven’t heard them all. We have a large space and we like to have parties and do karaoke time to time. Instead having multiple systems for movie, music and karaoke; it saves us money and space (less clutter) if we went with PA speakers. Oh btw, L’acoustic uses cloth speaker grills which looks better for home.

[ThePentosin]

Well, the name of the speaker is derived from its radiation pattern. So putting it between +-20 to 30 degrees falls right inline with its 50 (+-25)degrees radiation pattern.

For home usage, I guess the much smaller sh75 or sh95 makes sense. It would be really interesting to see how those perform.

Edit: Forgot about the SM60(f/m), I guess those make the most sense in a home environment.

[XudenGroupLLC]

I’m in North GA. If I ever come across speakers worth testing I’m not too far away!