are you really wanting to tri-amp or go full active. If you can find a Linn dealer close by have them demo the difference. You will be amazed.
Does anyone own a tri amped system in Florida I could hear?
That is my query. I have an audiophile friend in Australia who swears by this approach, and I am wondering just how many levels up one can go in SQ as well as full extension tone in doing this. I am a very happy balanced analog EQer for tone but want to experience everything.
Thanks! Sorry I don’t have my system posted still but I’ll put it in the next box here.
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@tlcocks Wrote:
Quote from Greg Timbers past engineer for JBL see below: ''You use the processors from DEQX, can you explain why? I have been playing around with electronic crossovers at home for many years. There is a detail and clarity to electronic systems that passive has trouble matching. However, there is often a musicality to the passive stuff that is difficult to achieve with a purely electronic chain. I was stuck with the compromise between a very nice analog active crossover system vs. digital stuff. The analog sounds very nice, and in my case better than any digital solution I had tried. The digital has the ability to do room EQ for free and fix a lot of problems. I could get great response and tonal balance, but I was always lacking in the musicality and "out of the box" presentation. I had read about the DEQX and decided to try them. My system is very complicated being a fully active 4-way system so implementing the DEQX solution took a while. I was intrigued by the ability of the DEQX to eliminate group delay at the crossover points. This is something that can't be done in analog and although people claim to have time aligned systems; they still have group delay in the crossover range. Even first order crossovers can't solve this problem since the individual drivers do not have the bandwidth above and below the crossover points to not contribute to the "acoustic slopes". By using FIR filters, amplitude and phase can be manipulated independently so this constraint can be overcome. The hardware in the DEQX is very well implemented indeed, but it is no match for the esoteric discrete analog stuff. Still, the complete amplitude and time correction easily overcomes this handicap and has given me the best of both worlds. I now have all of the detail, dynamics, smoothness and spacial attributes I have been searching for with the ability to do room correction and frequency shaping as I wish. It is a win-win for me.'' See full interview here Mike |
Very very interesting. @mijostyn , are you out there to comment? |
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