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| Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget Consider going to an audio expo to be able to look across industry. If you want to hear what the studio / producer intended and less of the room, go with actively driven speakers and room correction. | |
| Who has gone fully active? What speakers and preamp did you end up with? Next up Genelec the ones with marantz pre! | |
| Who has gone fully active? What speakers and preamp did you end up with? 3 systems all Linn speakers and amplifiers with min dsp, Emotiva, and Dennon pre amps all Dirac | |
| High end bookshelf speakers for Small room Consider to investigate those that have room correction and actively driven, genelec, kii, others… | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? I am a Linn fan with multiple active room corrected systems….put a jbl bar 700 in my new guest house. For $/650 easy peasy good sound with no wires at all on rears so can take out on porch for evening stereo. Also have quad outdoor speakers defin... | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations If soundstaging and imaging are important are you considering room correction and active amplification? | |
| Soundbars for guest house Around 1500, looking for the sweet spot of sound quality vs price…. | |
| Soundbars for guest house Thanks for that, great room with vaulted ceiling and adjacent open dining with many windows! | |
| Bookshelf speakers that renders 3D soundstage The room and speaker position is critical and Soundstage can be vastly improved through 1) digital room correction (e.g., Dirac) and 2) going with active speakers (e.g., Linn) | |
| DSP vs. active analog crossover vs. passive analog crossover. What is your take? I found going Active to be huge step up in Linn speakers/amps - incredible change in dynamics, clarity, spaciousness. Unless a room is designed to acoustically match the speakers, properly applied DSP is requirement to achieve clean/natural/flat ... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Active speakers with room Correction! originally Linn Katans driven actively with room correction - incredible transformation! upgraded to Linn Majik 140s actively driven with room correction and a sub. Tears! | |
| Best speakers for a small room First priority is room correction. Second is actively driven. Then look for sonically neutral / flat speakers. I use Dirac, Linn to achieve all three, Kii has some interesting looking kit… | |
| Crutchfield Customer Service They have fantastic customer service! Think of them first! | |
| Your thoughts on my quest for new speakers I have the same Linn Malik 140’s and a rhthmik 15” sub with also the majik center channel and katan surrounds. If you take your system aktiv (I have linn amps with aktiv cards) and add room correction ( I use dirac) you won’t need new speakers! ... | |
| Dual SVS PB-1000 Pro versus Dual Rythmik LV12F- does Servo Technology Matter. Rhythmik. I have an E15, sb3000, and vtf2, and 3 different bass guitar set ups. All great, and you can’t go wrong, but Rhythmik best for music as it sounds just a bit tighter and more controlled. |