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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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Funny, @kota1 ,  they Sonos has tried to recruit me twice. How about you?

However, at least to the latest information I have, their emphasis, at least from a pure audio standpoint, is best audio in small size. There are a lot of parallels from a technology standpoint with achieving maximum performance in a large size, but parallels and goals are not the same. I did think their purchase of Mayht was wise though for their goals and it will be interesting to see if they push that technology up to larger sizes.

Let me know when you purchases your Meridien system, though at that point, like now, you will just be someone who purchased active speakers.

@thespeakerdude

they Sonos has tried to recruit me twice

If you turned them down the joke is clearly on you. Well, at least you can still buy their stuff:

 

@thespeakerdude 

I am not up on all the latest in home audio equipment to even begin to spend $200K

I started another thread here that should be a good one to help you get up to speed, there some excellent system ideas. Feel free to drop by, I am sure you will find the help you need:

 

@kota1 , I would have quit while you were behind. My S&P Index fund has done way better, as has my O&G fund, thought I am not sure that has much legs left and even my semiconductor fund is screaming again. But seriously, I don't know what you think you are accomplishing with these little cheap shots you keep taking. I never called into the light your lack of any knowledge of active speakers other than owning them until you decided to start this childish game. It is obviously that one of us knows speakers and one does not. Hint, it is not you.

My market is speakers for professional applications. Why would I know the latest and greatest way to spend 200K in consumer audio? It is not my market. I could just spend 10 minutes on the web and throw out some links, but that is hardly expertise.  The correct answer to a question like that is a lot of questions, and perhaps some analysis of what the customer has. That is what I did. I did not start throwing out, repeatedly I may add, something that simulated a tube amp, when the customer did not even have a tube output amp. So again, I will ask, lay off the cheap shots.

 

 

 

@thespeakerdude

It is obviously that one of us knows speakers and one does not. Hint, it is not you.

It is clear that one of us OWNS speakers, and that one is not you.

You should quit trolling while you are ahead. All you have done in this thread is troll, complain, and whine. You FAILED the OP’s "test", in typical crash and burn style.

Clearly you have posted 0 pics in your virtual system, 0 info on your fantasy creds, 0 ideas about solid state amps that can replicate tubes, and 0 ideas on how to put together a system.

If I am counting correctly, that adds up to...0. 🤣