What are your opinions of DSP's for speakers


This seems to be a popular trend with many speaker brands. Some have internal amplification with DSP's and some have external implementations of it like Legacy. I have heard some good results with it being used but don't necessarily like the idea of everything being digitized for the sake of room/bass correction. Do you own or plan on buying a speaker like this, or have you heard any using it? 

willywonka

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Is it possible to have perfect room, treated or not?  My understanding is that, at the very least, it's almost impossible to treat a room for low frequencies completely.  One may have an excellent room that sounds very good but that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.  DSP can implement functions that simply are not possible with room treatments, such as variable phase correction across the frequency range.

I implement DSP in my two channel system (via MiniDSP hardware and Dirac Live software).  If there is any degradation in sound, as some claim, I don't hear it and the benefits achieved through DSP room correction far outweigh any.  For me, in my space (partially treated with absorption panels on key surfaces, 14x24'), my system went from sounding not right, fatiguing, uneven bass response, to one I look forward to listening to every day.  I'm sure it's not perfect, but I couldn't tell you what's wrong with it.