lonemountain
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| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @invalid Okay, I get that nothing is really colorless. But what path offers lower color? Active or passive? | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @invalid Amps are the same? Where did anyone say that? Sounds like you are pulling in a different argument io you don’t have to listen to these ideas anymore. In this thread we have good examples of both onboard and outboard amp active systems.... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @thespeakerdude Wise comments about purity. It is absolutely true that not everyone prefers the active version of a well executed design. I sometimes wonder if posting in favor of active makes people think there is no alternative. I've done t... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Audiophiles clearly care about speaker wire a lot, there's a huge industry built around it. Somehow all the wire inside a passive speaker's crossover is just forgotten about. When the differences in wire are so widely accepted, I can't imagine h... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @pcrhkr My question is not that you bought a great amp and speaker, but that you are listening not to the speaker, but mostly wire. IF anyone realized how much wire is in a good LF inductor, then additional wire in the other inductors for midrange... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused How could a Harmon company abandon these and not support them? Are these very old? From my little corner, I’ve never seen an ATC amp failure we could not repair. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused donavabdear What a great experience! Wow. Brad | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home @rsf507 curious if companies did home demos then why need a dealer network? Are you suggesting a company that is located in CA ship a speaker to someone in FL then fly out to do the setup? I would imagine this type of scenario would raise the p... | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home Home demos are such a conundrum. The speaker/room influence interaction is so dramatic that no two rooms sound the same so the speakers will sound different in each of those rooms. I like @sounds_real_audio idea of a dealer visit. It is true a... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused A lot of system/equipment distortions are amazingly easy to hear with a signal generator with variable frequency and level. We use these to check for driver distortion during the recone process. That would be a good place to start and being simple... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Isn't the bulk of amp/driver "match" really about coordinating [the same] dynamic range of each section of a complete system? I mean an active system cannot be considered high end if it clips its HF amp on the tweeter before the LF amp clips on... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @thespeakerdude No, not at you! I was commenting on your most recent transparency post where you talk about amplifiers. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @thespeakerdude I’m with you. If you want to significantly change the sound of a system, transducers- speakers and phono cartridges - are the way to do it. An open question: Is this above statement about change something audiophiles agree wi... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @pcrhkr The only difference between a "plate amp" and a "chassis amp" (in an enclosed box) is the metal that surrounds the actual amplifier circuitry inside. Seriously- its packaging. nothing more. Some of these "plate amps" amps you are describ... | |
| Any still using the Dahlquist DQ-10 speakers? I used to work for Jon Dalhquist- he was quite the pioneer! His later DQM series (80s) addressed cabinet resonance issues long before it rose to popularity. He used two layers of variable density MDF with nextel between them. The Magnat driver... |