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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.

donavabdear
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m-db
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Your studio? Where are you and what's your hourly?

 

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dekay
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OK, but your speakers won't work when the power goes out.

 

DeKay

kenjit
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I would use Genelec for a studio, dedicated theater, maybe PC speakers, but not for HiFi 2 channel playback, they are too flat, neutral and boring. They can play loud without distorting, but I like magic when I play music, I want to be in the room at the tip of the mic, I want to see the performers.

Just get yourself an EQ and stop complaining about them being flat.

kenjit
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@jtgofish 

They are pro use disco speakers. Nothing to do with high end audio. You must be joking

clustrocasual
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"If you like to tinker, great. Tinker with the front end. But why tinker matching amps, drivers, and speaker cables when the engineer who DESIGNED the speaker can do it for you at a much lower cost?"

 

Because it will sound way, way better than integrated junk on the market. How can you not understand that concept? Maybe you’ve just never tried or heard it.

Theoretically when all things are designed with each other, the quality will be the top. But only something like a $1m Audionote system can do that. The products you're talking about (mainstream studio monitoring stuff) is complete crap sounding and matching up some audiophile cables and amps will sound far superior if you know what youre doing.

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