DAK is still around - https://www.dak.com/. I still buy from them. ;-) Back in the day, I got a pair of BSR floor speakers with 16-inch woofers, and then a Cerwin Vega subwoofer (that serves as a printer stand. Drew sold it to one of his fans, and much of what they sell now is software - but the DAK DePopper is must-have software if you rip LPs or cassette tapes to MP3, and the DAK Equalizer gives ripped cassette music some low-end pop. Great stuff still ....
I have a particular vivid memory from youth of a rainy Saturday discovering Peter Davidson’s Doctor Who on PBS followed my mom giving me a DAK catalog that “showed up” in the mail. What a day…
Years of day dreaming with that catalog from then forward. Took the catalogs everywhere as my mid eighties’ version of “scrolling” during family trips, waiting at appts and during mom’s errands, etc.
Yes, I still have some DAK cassettes somewhere in the garage stash and still actually USE some DAK sourced Unitech 2-way speakers (ST-2’s)with my vintage Sony WM-10… powered 3 1/2” woofers with 1 1/2” hard dome tweeters! In a cool portable canvas like zip case (eighties style color scheme) with room for your cassette player. Yes those stats seared into memory from reading and reading and reading the catalog spotlight… faithfully using to lobby my mom… and then day-dreaming every day about using at the lake dock while waiting to receive. Great article. Nice blast from the past. :)
DAK is still around - https://www.dak.com/. I still buy from them. ;-) Back in the day, I got a pair of BSR floor speakers with 16-inch woofers, and then a Cerwin Vega subwoofer (that serves as a printer stand. Drew sold it to one of his fans, and much of what they sell now is software - but the DAK DePopper is must-have software if you rip LPs or cassette tapes to MP3, and the DAK Equalizer gives ripped cassette music some low-end pop. Great stuff still ....
I never got the entire catalog, but I remember their 1 & 2-page ads in Omni magazine. Them and JS&A, makers of the Bone Fone!
I have a particular vivid memory from youth of a rainy Saturday discovering Peter Davidson’s Doctor Who on PBS followed my mom giving me a DAK catalog that “showed up” in the mail. What a day…
Years of day dreaming with that catalog from then forward. Took the catalogs everywhere as my mid eighties’ version of “scrolling” during family trips, waiting at appts and during mom’s errands, etc.
Yes, I still have some DAK cassettes somewhere in the garage stash and still actually USE some DAK sourced Unitech 2-way speakers (ST-2’s)with my vintage Sony WM-10… powered 3 1/2” woofers with 1 1/2” hard dome tweeters! In a cool portable canvas like zip case (eighties style color scheme) with room for your cassette player. Yes those stats seared into memory from reading and reading and reading the catalog spotlight… faithfully using to lobby my mom… and then day-dreaming every day about using at the lake dock while waiting to receive. Great article. Nice blast from the past. :)
I remember the catalogs: my dad and I wore them out!
I remember those catalogs. If memory the one I had, had that BSR eq/spectrum analyzer. Always want that eq but never got it.
The BSR EQ! Got it after quite a prolonged pressure campaign on my mom. Waiting on that to arrive was peak 80’s style patience and anticipation.