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@thespeakerdude

they Sonos has tried to recruit me twice

If you turned them down the joke is clearly on you. Well, at least you can still buy their stuff:

@thespeakerdude 

I am not up on all the latest in home audio equipment to even begin to spend $200K

I started another thread here that should be a good one to help you get up to speed, there some excellent system ideas. Feel free to drop by, I am sure you will find the help you need:

@kota1 , I would have quit while you were behind. My S&P Index fund has done way better, as has my O&G fund, thought I am not sure that has much legs left and even my semiconductor fund is screaming again. But seriously, I don't know what you think you are accomplishing with these little cheap shots you keep taking. I never called into the light your lack of any knowledge of active speakers other than owning them until you decided to start this childish game. It is obviously that one of us knows speakers and one does not. Hint, it is not you.

My market is speakers for professional applications. Why would I know the latest and greatest way to spend 200K in consumer audio? It is not my market. I could just spend 10 minutes on the web and throw out some links, but that is hardly expertise.  The correct answer to a question like that is a lot of questions, and perhaps some analysis of what the customer has. That is what I did. I did not start throwing out, repeatedly I may add, something that simulated a tube amp, when the customer did not even have a tube output amp. So again, I will ask, lay off the cheap shots.

@thespeakerdude

It is obviously that one of us knows speakers and one does not. Hint, it is not you.

It is clear that one of us OWNS speakers, and that one is not you.

You should quit trolling while you are ahead. All you have done in this thread is troll, complain, and whine. You FAILED the OP’s "test", in typical crash and burn style.

Clearly you have posted 0 pics in your virtual system, 0 info on your fantasy creds, 0 ideas about solid state amps that can replicate tubes, and 0 ideas on how to put together a system.

If I am counting correctly, that adds up to...0. 🤣

@kota1,

I have asked nicely for you to act like an adult. I don't know what you think that childish post does to improve your standing. I am not hear to play in your personal circus and jump through hoops for you. When you have some ownership position in this website I will reevaluate that. Till then.

The "op" has put out a few tests. Only one was a technical question about speaker design. However, if you would like to argue about imitating tubes. The op has a preamplifier that uses tubes, and an amplifier with an input stage that is tubes. The output of his amplifier is solid state. Its damping factor is about 10-20x what the damping factor would be of a tube amplifier and 20x that of the Sunfire in tube emulation mode. The OPs speakers are very low impedance. The Sunfire in tube mode would make a mess of the frequency response in a system the OP otherwise likes. That, in my books, is a terrible and poorly researched suggestion.  I know my limits and admit them.