wjm (03/28/83)
DAK seems to have very catchy ads which appear in a number of periodicals
"Scientific American", "High Fidelity", "Stereo Review", and a number of in-flight
magazines. The ads seem to have one recurring theme - we've got this great deal
on a piece of consumer electronics, of which there are only N left - act now!
The equipment has always seemed to be (like this BSR equalizer) fairly low-end
mass market gear - whether its worth the price or not, I can't say, although
the prices look attractive one may be able to get comparable quality stuff
cheaper from one of the local discount houses. I've never done business with
DAK so I can't say how reliable they are in filling orders or making good when
problems occur.
As for the BSR EQ unit, it looks like a lot of low end models listing for $100-
150 made by BSR's subsidiary ADC, Radio Shack, and others.
While an inexpensive EQ like this can be used to correct gross errors in
room or speaker response IF one has a pink noise generator and real-time
analyzer, any serious equalization requires at least a 10-band unit with
an analyzer and they run around $500. I would share Mark Terribile's concerns
about distortion introduced by the fiters (and not only the exotic and epherimal
TIM but more real THD) in low cost equalizers. One of the reasons good eq boxes
cost $500 is because their fiter circuits are designed to minimize these effiects.
Bill Mitchellmike@hpfclk.UUCP (06/08/84)
I got DAK's Summer Catalog in the mail the other day. Many of the items look tempting like the Audiometric 440 watt power amplifier for $349. However I do wonder if all there stuff is really discounted or what. Who else out there has had experience (good or bad) with DAK? Michael Bishop hplabs!hpfcla!hpfclk!mike
usrgrp@mrvax.DEC (HELP LINE X4960 MR1-2/E69) (06/12/84)
I have ordered several things from DAK with good results. They are
very slow in delivering some items however.
their address is DAK Industries Incorp
10845 Vanowen St.
N. Hollywood CA
91605
their corp phone number is 818-984-1559.
*RICK*
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decwrl!rhea!mrvax!usrgrp@SU-Shastaparnass@ihuxf.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) (06/20/84)
> I got DAK's Summer Catalog in the mail the other day. Many of the items > look tempting like the Audiometric 440 watt power amplifier for $349. > However I do wonder if all there stuff is really discounted or what. > Who else out there has had experience (good or bad) with DAK? > I also got the DAK catalog but have never bought from them. To try and get an idea of how their prices compared with other companies, you might compare: o+ their "Thought Compressor Plus" Soundpace C-5 tape recorder ($129 + $4 p/h fee) with the Radio Shack ver- sion VSC-1000 ($119). o+ their Maxon 49S "Think Speak" VOX-operated walkie talkie ($49.95 + $3 p/h fee) with the same unit from National Tower Company, in Shawnee Mission, Kansas ($39.95). Oh yes, DAK's claim is amusing: "The system operates on 49 MHz band using FM, so you shouldn't be bothered by any other radio transmissions, as you are with CBs and Walkie Talkies." Actually, these frequencies are shared by other walkie talkies, toy remote control cars, and CORDLESS TELEPHONES! Nice catalog, but shop around. -- ========================================================================== Bob Parnass, AT&T Bell Laboratories - ihnp4!ihuxf!parnass - (312)979-5414