what is the effect on the music?
generally; properly implemented, what a single active device will do is to bring a level of calm and naturalness to the music. it will allow moments of musical stress and energy to be more finely sorted out, to flow better. the musical focus will increase, but without an unnatural type of false edge or high frequency increase.
and the greater your dynamic expectations for your system, the more resonance attenuation matters, and the more active can take you further. if you look at my system it is designed to do big music effortlessly. i have a large room, very well tuned, headroom in my power grid, headroom in my amplification, and a high level of driver surface. i can really get lots of energy. which means lots of potential feedback into my signal path to smear and blur the musical message. active resonance control keeps the music pure on musical peaks and makes me want to listen more and allows me to immerse myself more in the music.
what is not always appreciated is (1) how electronics sing along with the music, and (2) how the environment around us compromises any electronics and adds it's own noise. you will never realize those things until you remove them and then it's an epiphany moment.
having -5- of these devices in my system takes it all to another level because the normal feedback loop for the resonance corruption is completely broken. think about it. if your source is protected by active, but your preamp or amp is not, then the resonance in those devices will be picked up and fed back to the signal path into the speakers, then back into the system. active in each step has a multiplier effect on the degree of benefit.
it's easy for me to just turn the active effect off for my amplifiers briefly and the 3D effect in the music relatively collapses. turn it back on and the 3D is back.
generally; properly implemented, what a single active device will do is to bring a level of calm and naturalness to the music. it will allow moments of musical stress and energy to be more finely sorted out, to flow better. the musical focus will increase, but without an unnatural type of false edge or high frequency increase.
and the greater your dynamic expectations for your system, the more resonance attenuation matters, and the more active can take you further. if you look at my system it is designed to do big music effortlessly. i have a large room, very well tuned, headroom in my power grid, headroom in my amplification, and a high level of driver surface. i can really get lots of energy. which means lots of potential feedback into my signal path to smear and blur the musical message. active resonance control keeps the music pure on musical peaks and makes me want to listen more and allows me to immerse myself more in the music.
what is not always appreciated is (1) how electronics sing along with the music, and (2) how the environment around us compromises any electronics and adds it's own noise. you will never realize those things until you remove them and then it's an epiphany moment.
having -5- of these devices in my system takes it all to another level because the normal feedback loop for the resonance corruption is completely broken. think about it. if your source is protected by active, but your preamp or amp is not, then the resonance in those devices will be picked up and fed back to the signal path into the speakers, then back into the system. active in each step has a multiplier effect on the degree of benefit.
it's easy for me to just turn the active effect off for my amplifiers briefly and the 3D effect in the music relatively collapses. turn it back on and the 3D is back.