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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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joysjane
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"That must be some kind of record @joysjane"

Yea, really sucks!

They were some seriously great sounding speakers before the BASH plate amps went kaput...

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lonemountain
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How could a Harmon company abandon these and not support them?  Are these very old?   From my little corner, I’ve never seen an ATC amp failure we could not repair. 

kota1
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@donavabdear 

You may want to check out this workshop on mixing in atmos coming up with Sweetwater's Shawn Dealey:

 

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pcrhkr
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Example, if you have two Levinson mono blocks driven by a Levenson preamp. Will powered speakers sound like Levenson? Or the plate amp inside the speaker? Why not runa cheapo $3,000 setup through a great set of powered speakers if that is the case? Why spend $20,000 on mono blocks if you won't hear their aplomb or character?

 

 

 

 

 

 

secretguy
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It's amusing that posers think no one can tell they're posers.

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