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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.
The Canadian is not running a “fairness in competition” for speaker manufacturers… and they can do what they want. They would not (and should not) disadvantage themselves. |
@holmz Oh ya I'm all for it, I bought their best speakers 9h and 4 of their Persona B bookshelf speakers for my surround sounds then I bought their best ceiling speakers. I'm all for doing the best you can! I even bought 10 channels of Anthem amplification and another Anthem receiver for another surround system. |
@thespeakerdude I like your answers about bass helping the entire spectrum of music, yes it is warmer and more tube like, less harsh. Seems to me that the bass being important in the beat is not the reason because even ambiences sound better. Even your last reason that proper bass frequencies give a musical foundation in harmonic ratios doesn't really hold water either because in nature bass notes aren't tuned to the other frequencies in the environment. Could it be that bass simply needs to be in what we hear to make any environment more pleasing, just like the rumble of records makes them sound better. Odd that we strive to make record groves more accurate and 16 ohm speakers take the tube effect of amps away when all the time it is the low frequencies that we enjoy in tube amps and records. The movie Ford vs Ferrari the engines were "tuned" to match the music and the music was changed in pitch to match the engines in some scenes, it won an Oscar for sound. Think about our happiest times in life, in your Moms arms as a baby, in a safe bed, wrapped in a blanket sitting by a fire, listening to music in a great building. And then think about bad times in your life, school rooms, cheep tinny cars, the screechy voice of your teacher, a cold icy night, hospital rooms all places where there is very little low frequencies and an abundance of high frequencies. Just saying. |
