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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.

donavabdear

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@kota1 

There are very few on the ASR forums, in my experience, that are highly experienced in acoustics and psychoacoustics.

100% true, however they LOVE to wrap themselves in psychobabble and consider themselves experts (in their own mind at least).

It seriously made my day to read this. Thank You!

You're a hundred percent accurate here. Obviously  not everyone, but the majority.

@kota1 

I am glad that we are in agreement about the quote and thanks for your compliment to my audio gear. I'll let them know! lol

Viewing your system page makes me want to listen. The room correction, speaker placement, and room treatments. Looks like you invested a lot of time and effort; and it was all worth it.

I'm curious about your system. Are you on YouTube by a chance? I would subscribe. 

@donavabdear 

I think they're unique - in terms of looks. Not ugly. Simply looking at the woofer cover tells us that we are not dealing with an ordinary speaker. 

PMC speakers are great ! tonally accurate, detailed, and will tell you the truth about a recording without going overboard.

They are very popular in studios. Same with JBL horn speakers, TADs, and ATC speakers. That's because these speakers are marketed towards people in pro audio; and they actually fulfill that purpose.

So if anyone were to knock these brands for any reason; yet the music you're playing on your own system sounds great, you can safely assume that one or more of the above speakers from/brands were used in the final stages of post-production. Otherwise, lots of mastering errors and even mixing errors that were never corrected.