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@donavabdear

Because powered speakers and even synergistic design philosophies aren’t available at a the level I want

Put these on your audition list:

@kota1 Now your talking thanks.

Anything that ugly has got to sound great.

@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.

@donavabdear

You are the only member who went to the Academy awards for the work in sound you did. You probably have very good trained listening skills. Why you like to choose speakers without listening to them is about as ridiculous as buying a six figure car without a test drive. When you audition listen to the flagship model first to set the bar and save time. Then compare the other stuff in that brand to the flagship (like you did with Paradigm). PMC has custom install speakers if you want to focus on room design.:

https://pmc-speakers.com/products/custom-installation/ci-series

Right up your alley too:

Anyone reading this thread who does NOT have an immersive system yet needs to watch the above video. This is NOT hyperbole. Those guys at Capitol Records went back to the ORIGINAL master tapes from their vault, listened to them and raised the bar. If you listen to the description of the engineer at :30 he says that an atmos mix makes the entire room a soundfield. I would say that the entire room becomes a speaker, its like the entire walls, the ceiling, EVERYTHING gets pressurized. When you throw ACTIVE speakers, into a well treated room, calibrated with a good DSP it is WOW.

@donavabdear , you don’t need six figure speakers to achieve this when doing immersive audio. I would take a room like this all day compared to a room with two sound cannons pointed at your head, but that’s just me.

Seven Bryston Active mini-T’s set up equidistant in the room with 4 matching active mini’ts on tall stands as front and rear heights. forget about it. I would NOT want the Model-T active towers and a lot of smaller speakers. In my setup I have 4 perfectly matched active 40’s as L-R-LS and RS, the matching center, and 6 matching active 20’s as wides (the 40’s wouldn’t fit) and FH, RH. You get that perfect of a match, throw in a tightly calibrated room and KABOOM, it is a, how you call it, amusement park.

DON’T get a jumble, match your bed channels with the exact same speakers if you can, same with height channels. You can make a great system with passive speakers but for me, active makes a better matched system like this.

Remember, the Bryston's use an outboard crossover so you can roll amps to your hearts content. Hook up your BHK toobs to the tweeters and those Bryston monoblocks to the woofers, whatever.