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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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@thespeakerdude I'm amazed I've never told anyone about that idea but Bruno did it, so neat. There are problems with interference tube designs, there are spurs in the rear polar patterns that are very hard to tame. Also off axis coloration is worse when the directionality is longest. 

I also had designs of an optical digital laser microphone that could listen from miles away. Hope no one figures out that one. 

 

I also had designs of an optical digital laser microphone that could listen from miles away. Hope no one figures out that one. 

 

I hate to break your bubble on this one. Those have been around since the 80's probably earlier. I don't know if they were initially designed as a surveillance tool, but that was one application. They can pick up the vibrations on window glass. Now they are a common industrial tool as well.

Powered ATC monitors rule the mixing/mastering world. I think most dudes are just attached to components as it’s ritualistic.

donavabdear, do any of your Genelec speakers have the dynamic correctness and dynamic excitement and immediacy of a large properly designed fully horn loaded system with horn bass in the low 20s Hz range, DSP crossed over, speaker corrected, room corrected, phase and time corrected speaker system?