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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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Do you PM anyone with the company you work for so they can check out your product ? Thanks 

@kota1 ,  Atmos may be cool for cinema and gaming but not for an ultimate two channel system, they just do not need that kind of help. All you are doing is adding more distortion. My system sounds better, much better without it. If your system sounds better with it you have work to do. I HATE headphones. I use special Etymotic ear buds to protect my hearing when I am mowing the lawn, cutting down trees or riding the motorcycle. Music is a visceral experience you feel the music as well as hear it. Headphones cut off 1/2 the experience. 

@lonemountain , you are absolutely correct. This concept applies to all speakers. Theoretically, you can get any speaker to perform at it's best in most rooms if you are given free rein and have enough processing power. Back in the day the tools we had available were awful. I managed he problem by picking the right speaker for the room. I used a lot of Maggies because they caused less room interaction and my typical customer was not interested in high volumes.

It was fun just to sit and watch the Plasmatronics glow. We did not sell any. Did you miss the Levison HQD system? That was really nuts.