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Oh brother...

@thespeakerdude wrote:

There was nothing rude in a teacher correcting a student who has made an error ...

A convenient pressumption to make the narrative fit to your needs. Come on..

How would you listen for transparency? What does it sound like? Have you heard it before? Do you know what relative distortion sounds like in a speaker over any given frequency range? at a particular sound intensity? What would you use to listen for it? Do you know the pedigree of that recording and the signal / processing chain to know the level of transparency from the time the sound was created till it comes off the recording medium?

I'm shooting sparrows with cannons in my systems approach in several areas, and don't have to proof nor explain anything to you with regard to my discerning abilities. The questions you're asking however tells me you may be working from a physically limited framework where it least some of the mentioned parameters will be all the more challenging and press upon themselves to be addressed - more "creatively," even. 

Again, you haven't yet addressed my plead: give me/us something to go by with a range of speakers that meet your criteria in being fairly faithful to the signal presented to them in a given acoustic environment - then we'll see what you're up to and what it really amounts to. It should be clear to most that you're knowledgeable, but so far it mostly comes down as show-off and telling people what they're missing out on. I surely mind being a bitch to that attitude of yours. 

When you understand the intricacies of driving a traditional dynamic driver or AMT in the most linear possible fashion, at all signal levels, with complex waveforms, perhaps your attitude will be warranted.

No, you need to show something by example here. 

.. and probably most people's concept of amplifier/driver is a simple linear voltage based amplifier perhaps with some frequency response modification. Without writing a book, that is a traditional view that is not the future of active speakers. Even active subwoofer drivers with velocity/position feedback already break that mold.

That's a preposterous claim before even realizing what's here. The future of active configuration is first making it more known and widespread in its varieties to the users in domestic sound reproduction. There are bundled solutions. Outboard. Pre-assembled. DIY. Small and large iterations to pursue - the latter if one truly chooses. You want to jump the fence from passive to your way of "shine a light" active as the only thing that really does it - in what form or shape? Details, please. There's a lot in between or even beyond. I've chosen DIY outboard-active from a relatively unrestricted package physically. It goes to show the importance of physics with subs in particular; below the Schroeder frequency it's about capacity, proper design/construction and implementation mainly. The larger the cumulative cone area the less cone movement is needed for a given SPL, and in effect less inertia build-up, more headroom, lower distortion, ease of reproduction and all that jazz. Not to mention attention to room-loading with DBA's, column sub solutions and/or more extensive room correction digitally. Servo drive needn't apply here, not that the effort isn't well-intended. And so on.. 

@thespeakerdude 

you can change this

There is no value to me in pushing a rope.

To this:

There is no value to me .... unless you publish your creds