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

I use DSP, external to my speakers, and through my Anthem STR Stereo Preamp. It has onboard Anthem Room Correction (ARC), and customizable bass manager for mono or stereo sub outs. Anthem Room Correction is all the treatment my room will get and it benefits from it, especially integration of my two subwoofers and  stand mount speakers.

 

I can switch to direct and not use ARC but I lose bass management. I prefer the results with ARC and bass management to pure direct mode.

@mapman where do you live? Always down to hear someone else system.

 

@deep_333 Never stated any facts, just my opinion. My 2ch is all vintage analog. 

I'm sure in the near future, we will have little black boxes that work their magic to get the perfect sound in any room. Not sure we are there yet. Even my TOTL HT receiver DSP is on the "basic" side of things. Still need a few room treatments to get it "perfect" 

I'd love to audition the new Accuphase DF-75 digital crossover. Just to see what a pedigree High End digital active crossover could do.

Unless you want to go with an all-in-one speaker system, using external RC/EQ tools will give you more flexibility and potentially more accurate DSP functionality.

I use a miniDSP for sub integration with my mains, with DSP only controlling my sub for 2 channel. 
I use full DSP for my 7.2.2 home theater system.