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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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Thanks for the kind words. I don’t have a youtube channel, however the video that helped me a lot was the series on acoustics that had Anthony Grimmani as a guest. He was kind enough to correspond by e-mail and really helped me with implementing his "acoustic recipe". The recipe was a good starting point and then you roll up your sleeves and start hanging products. Auralex was the vendor I chose and they were great to work with. I used the Dolby specs for most of my speaker placement. For the size of my room I divided up the room using the fibonacci ratios for seating and treatment placement.

The MLP is at the 50% point exactly between my front and back wall so those speakers are equidistant from the MLP. Front speakers with tweeters at ear level, the bottom of the screen starts at eye level.

If you look at my ceiling you’ll see absorption in the front third of the room, at the mid point I have those diffusors, "geofusors" based on the geodesic dome, that are filled with polyfil so they double as bass traps. At the two thirds point between front and back wall I have my surround and top middle surround speakers. Then 75% of the distance from the front wall I have my PJ and the "acoustic cloud" hanging which is a 3D diffusor. The second row of seating is just below it.

The panel placement on the walls are asymmetrical. If I have an absorber on one side wall (yin) it is mirrored by a diffusor on the opposite wall (yang). Then each side wall is interleafed (absorption, diffusion, absorption, etc)

The panels are also placed at the same fib ratios, 1/3 from the front wall, 50%, 66% and 75%. This worked for me because of the length of my room, for a longer room you would need to add more rows of seating, have a bigger screen, etc.

 

I am interested in active speakers but for now disappointed. When I run the passive speaker from my main system tube amp, instead of the amp in the active speaker, it sounds way better (Sony, Elac etc).  But you can't stick my Atma-sphere MA-1 into a small speaker.

@thespeakerdude ​​​​@kota1 Really looking forward to the world premier of your new YouTube channel and podcast. I think it should be called "The final word in sound". You guys could argue for an hour each week, it would be perfect!

Suppose we did build 3D printed rooms that we could take time to fine tune everything about the sound, would the color of the room make a difference would the kind of drink you had made a difference in how you enjoyed it (caffeine does change hearing) if the room sounded "perfect" but was ugly would anyone enjoy the sound? The more I think of building the perfect room the more I understand why Storyk rooms are so beautiful, it’s for the same reason why I love my Mercedes AMG GT-c and love the way it performs it’s not the fastest car ever but it helps me understand the saying "Contentment is poverty of desire". I love this car in a the way I want to love my sound system, really exciting, keeps me on the edge of my emotions, and a little dangerous. I’m not there yet but you guys have given me some good ideas. Thanks

 

@o_holter I love tube amps also, I don't know of speakers that are made for tube amps, the dampening factor for a solid state and a tube amp would be very different, generally tube amps don't have near the power of SS amps of course, it there were speakers that were designed for a tube amp that would be a big deal and I would go out and buy it.

@kota1 is right outboard crossovers, at line level, then amplified to a speaker that was designed for that particular tube amp would be amazing. @kota1 probably knows of a company that does just this, that's the answer.