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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.
I don't see @phusis or @mijostyn claiming to work for a speaker company. IMO @thespeakerdude is another DIY guy who is all about the "talk" because unlike @phusis and @mijostyn he ain't got the walk. However, the good news is you didn't drop any coin on his lame advice yet so while the entertainment factor is fine, at least you don't gotta take much risk. |
I think I’m justo going to buy some nice speakers and subs for my upgrade, I don’t think I can go active, other than the subs. Like I said, you should start a build thread and get suggestions from other members. Just from your one post you already picked up some keen info from @invalid I’ve seen multiple posts that claim the BHK preamp is noisy. Who knows how many other people have experience with a similar product or issue that can give you some info based on their experience and the money they already spent, so you can save yours. |
I don’t think I can go active, other than the subs. Then this would clearly be the wrong thread to get suggestions. If you change your mind and decide to go active, just post and I’m sure you will get some good recommendations. You already have a SOA active system with the Genelec’s so I get wanting to dabble a bit. |
@donavabdear , apologies for not ignoring the man child. I will try better. Had heard a lot about the PS power plants, but never dug very far into them so read a bit and talked to one of my EEs. The PS units are not true isolated regens so that may be why they don't solve it. Odds are good that the extension cord is getting you onto the same phase as your other equipment. Shouldn't matter, if you can, plug everything into a single phase. Easiest way to test is plug everything into a single power bar. Just don't turn it loud and you should be able to test. @invalid , a page or so back, I posted what Stereophile measured for SNR, 90db on balanced, but that pre-amp has really high output and they may have measured that 90db at the full output level. At a normal level, it could be 10-20db lower. That would be audible. The unbalanced are even noisier.
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@thespeakerdude I don't think that the BHK preamps are consistent from one example to another, some people claim no noise and others have a lot of noise. They didn't all have high sensitivity speakers either. |
