Dayton T65 Impressions/ Mini review

[M Midnight]

Amazing! I just picked these up (for my apartment) for a third system and they are remarkable for the money. Mind blowing, to say the least. They can fill a room while offering very crisp vocals, great mid-range performance and more than enough bass to be suitable for detailed listening. I'm astounded by the big, lush music coming from these speakers. The sound stage is deep and wide and the instruments feel tight and accurate. There is even a good bit of sparkle up top on the upper end. These dayton's perform about 7/8's (85%) of the RBH R55TI towers(and I'm super high on these, which are in my second system), which is in it's self insane, they also offer better bass performance top to bottom. I have not heard any small bookshelf speaker under 600 bucks that could keep up with these, scale, dynamics, soundstage etc......you will need a nice system to get the best out of them, they are very power hungry claimed efficiency states 87db, but i would assume it's more like 85db, once i moved them to a nice 80watt rms system they woke up! I consider this speaker a real disruptor at this 200 dollar price point. I would love to see a James Larson review............At $199 bucks for the pair this is hands the best value in home audio without question.

Dayton Audio Classic T65 Floor-Standing Tower Speaker Pair Wood

 

[M Midnight]

Wow almost 300 views and no comments......this is place is slow now......I see

 

[lovinthehd]

Not much to say, but I do like that you have three systems in an apartment. Curious, you went to 80wpc from what and what is "wake up"?

 

[M Midnight]

Not much to say, but I do like that you have three systems in an apartment. Curious, you went to 80wpc from what and what is "wake up"?

The apartment is separate, I have two main systems at the big house.......I started on a older cheap reciever and while it sounded good, it really opened up the midrange, soundstage on the more powerful intergrated amp

 

[lovinthehd]

The apartment is separate, I have two main systems at the big house.......I started on a older cheap reciever and while it sounded good, it really opened up the midrange, soundstage on the more powerful intergrated amp

How much more powerful, what are they particularly? Opened up is such a vague subjective reaction....

 

[M Midnight]

How much more powerful, what are they particularly? Opened up is such a vague subjective reaction....

Went from 40watt rms to 100watt rms and the sound improved tenfold, the speakers are very power hungry and are really around the 85 db area. The soundstage got wider and taller, and the bass performance got much more snapper and precise, instruments separation improved also details stood more also..........hope that makes things clear too you

 

[lovinthehd]

Went from 40watt rms to 100watt rms and the sound improved tenfold, the speakers are very power hungry and are really around the 85 db area. The soundstage got wider and taller, and the bass performance got much more snapper and precise, instruments separation improved also details stood more also..........hope that makes things clear too you

LOL yeah crystal clear. Who knows what you can imagine!

 

[MrBoat]

I'm not surprised. It's 2025 and computers really don't know how to design a bad speaker.

I have a pair of Paul Carmody Classix 2s, that were made up from $165 worth of parts that are just fun as heck to listen to as long as one doesn't get too wrapped up around their audiophile axle. I find a lot of higher end speakers remarkable sounding, but then I get tired of listening out for the differences or trying to derive some profound experience from every single thing.

Right now, I'm part time hooked on a pair of Carmody's 'Speedsters,' which are probably technically wrong as heck somehow, but I give them a session every night in my bedroom system.

 

[M Midnight]

LOL yeah crystal clear. Who knows what you can imagine!

Excuse me?

 

[M Midnight]

I'm not surprised. It's 2025 and computers really don't know how to design a bad speaker.

I have a pair of Paul Carmody Classix 2s, that were made up from $165 worth of parts that are just fun as heck to listen to as long as one doesn't get too wrapped up around their audiophile axle. I find a lot of higher end speakers remarkable sounding, but then I get tired of listening out for the differences or trying to derive some profound experience from every single thing.

Right now, I'm part time hooked on a pair of Carmody's 'Speedsters,' which are probably technically wrong as heck somehow, but I give them a session every night in my bedroom system.

I can dig that!

 

[lovinthehd]

Excuse me?

An increase in amp difference of 3dB or so isn't impressive....if that's opening up to you, don't know but I'm using much more powerful amps and wouldn't use the "opening up" type description