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I had been using the bigger DM3s since new in 1971 but I was aware the smaller DM4s were generally preferred. The tweeter and super-tweeter are common to both. As the price was right I bought two pairs of DM4s to use in two different rooms. All DM4s are certainly not the same. The better pair had been kept in cooler conditions and the teak veneer was perfect. Also the baffle had teak veneer and pretty plugs to hold the grilles. The grilles were perfect but these speakers looked wonderful without them. The other pair had baffles in black spray painted plywood with rather ugly wooden blocks to support the grilles. Clearly original but an inferior batch. These speakers had clearly had to suffer central heating so the veneer was cracked and the cones showed signs of the rubber surround parting company with the cone. I re-stuck the cones with super glue and strengthened both cones with a thin layer of silicone at the join. The cabinets needed repairing with plastic wood. I filled the wood grain with fine polyfilla then sanded off carefully priming then finishing in white gloss after masking the front and back. Rather laborious but the result with grilles replaced is spectacular. Sound quality from both pairs can only be described as delicious especially when used with subwoofers. New speakers of this standard cost a lot. Spendor BC1s of similar vintage go for a lot more but use the same or similar drivers. A comparison with DM3s. They had paper eliptical 8 inch by 13 inch woofers. This produced a rather wooly mid-range as the paper tended to add its own vibrations. Doped paper avoided this problem so I applied model aircraft dope to my woofers resulting in much cleaner sound. Used with subwoofers at high volume in a large room I have to say my DM3s still beat all comers and if you can find some good ones buy them. But the DM4s are also a really class act. Buy carefully though and try to inspect first. They will already have lasted almost a lifetime and with care could last another lifetime. True hi-fi on a low budget. Aim to pay less than £250 a pair but really good ones are worth twice that.Read full review
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These are as good as bookshelf speakers get; the mid-range is a little coloured, but pleasantly so and the treble as sweet as one would expect from the HF1300 / Coles-STC combination. They were purchased to provide a mid-range / treble 'standard', for comparison purposes in putting together floor-standing speakers using combinations of other manufacturer's units. Not without surprise, I preferred their mid-range to Spendor BC1s, and they haven't the slight mid-range hole of the DM2s, but then, neither the impressive bass, or their colossal inefficiency.... I ensured that my purchased pair had the black bass unit surround as I gather there is a shrinking problem with the white-coloured surrounds.
Bright representative of the English school sound. One of the best speakers of this size that I was able to hear. Great acoustics. great sound! Everything is perfect! Thank you!
I've now owned 2 pairs of these speakers. Outstanding for me is the midrange and treble. If you have quality music sources, then you will hear detail that many other speakers up to £1000 will miss or smoothe over. For the budget money that even well looked after examples sell for, these are a top bargain.
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The highs are marvelous thanks to the tweeter and super tweeter. The mids are also very well reproduced. With the large 8" woofer, the lows are deep and correct, surely thanks to the quality of the neodyme speaker. The cabinet is made with fine veneers . The speakers are rated at 40 watts and that's more than enough. They are elegant due to their sleek design and the wood. Their value for money is really good when you see how much they sell for now.
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