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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.

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@rick2000 , many people could list their speakers, cables, dac. and amps for sale, take the cash, buy a set of Dynaudio Focus speakers, get an upgrade, and have money left over. I think they won't because it is too hard to let go of the OCD that often comes with this hobby. Fortunately their is a new generation getting into this hobby that will benefit greatly from a plug and play, value priced ACTIVE system like this.

@rick2000 Dynaudio is really on to something, I listened to a set of them and instantly it sounded warm and happy, to me speaker evaluation takes about 5 seconds or in a system between components and speakers about 1 second, just after the first note. Dynaudio speakers do that for me. 

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@thespeakerdude I wanted to ask you about WMTMW it seems to not make sense but as you mentioned there are many great speakers that use this. Seems like the low and mid frequencies would interact a few feet out. no one would ever use a microphone setup in that form there would be to much phasing.

 

We obviously test a lot of our competitors, but these companies are not our competitors, so we would never test them, not to mention too expensive to purchase and tear down!

I expect how they behave is, like all speakers, room dependent. Over a range of frequencies, it should help with vertical room modes and since people are least likely to treat the floor and ceiling, from a practical standpoint, that could be quite a good thing. It's not going to replace multiple subs for room averaging, but it may help a bit though my mind says watch for peaks and valleys with varied ceiling height.