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

Showing 1 response by ghdprentice

No, no, and no. 

It is hard enough to get the very best sound with the straight wire approach. Adding extra digital processing will be subtracting from coherence. You add complexity and then pile more stuff into multifunctional boxes and you lose fidelity. 

 

Then there is putting generally less reliable electronics into a very reliable speaker system. So, something fails, and you have  a hundred plus pound speaker with electronics inside it. Passive speaker system typically perform without failure for decades.

One of the variables that interferes with sound reproduction in vibration. So, putting electronics into a speaker is very counterproductive. This is one of the reason that audiophile equipment is in very heavy cases...it is dampening. 


Also, mechanical failure is accelerated by vibration.

Someday, I am sure... just like CDs now can sound great... forty years after starting to try. But not now. 

 

For consumer or budget audio equipment, sure. It doesn't sound that great to start with, so you can equalize it to sound better.