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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 Tuning the sound at amp level and line level are not the same so you cannot substitute one for the other. Some audiophiles may prefer to tune at one level rather than the other, It all comes down to what is best for your ears. What is your definition of perfect driver matching? And how would it be measured? |
@kenjit Sorry I’m really not communicating well at all, my fault. I’m only talking about the engineering design of the speaker amp combination and when you use powered speakers in which the amp is literally connected with no speaker cable to the amp the crossover is in the circuit before the amp. This gives many benefits one of the many benefits is perfect speaker dampening and transient response. Being able to design the crossover and other circuits that are 600 ohms not 8 ohms allows you to do many things to more perfectly tune the amp to the single speaker driver. Every driver in the speaker needs it’s own amp that is designed for the particular drivers and frequencies that driver will produce. To be more clear in this system there really isn’t a crossover at all it’s simply a simple circuit that only allows frequencies in which the driver is designed for. Hope that’s clear
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@vinylvalet , if you have time can you please post your virtual system so we can check it out? Sounds great. This thread has a few audio experts with studio or manufacturing experience participating like yourself, has been quite an eye (ear) opener so far. Thanks |
