Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused


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.

donavabdear

@donavabdear 

Your Paradigm Persona 9H bi-amped with 800 watts of SOA power will solve a lot of problems you didn't even know you had (harmonics, bass, whatever).

Going once, going twice:

 

@kota1 you posted a picture of Titanic going down, I was there for 6 months in Mexico filming that monster. There was only one side of the ship made so every once in a while we would have a flipped day, that meant everything was switched like looking in a mirror, we did that when we needed to do a scene with odd numbered lifeboats. The men's hair was parted on the opposite side as well as all their clothes being buttoned on the opposite side, they shook hands using their left instead of their right and all the writing was backwards. The tricks in movies show how much psychology and science are used together to achieve an outcome, just like sound, except sound is more psychological because it's invisible.

@donavabdear 

That wasn't the Titanic, that was the HMS "Beryllium" that sailed with an untreated "deck" LOL. 

@kota1 My BHK 300 mono blocks are hybrid amps tube on the input and MOFSET on the output they are pretty good (about $15k) or so, likewise my 9hs are hybrid the mid and high frequency are passive and the bass has 4x 8inch drivers that are powered by an amp with peak power of 2700W. These speakers should have lots of bass on their own, I think my particular speakers are simply turned down to much because when I push the sweep generator built into the speaker it gets VERY low 19hz they say and it feels like it but with normal music the low end is very poor. I can’t power the low end of these speakers it is all internal. These speakers were reviewed very well by everyone they should be better. I’m going to tear into them myself now that the warrantee is over. The sunfire amp I don’t think is an upgrade to my BHK 300s, I could be wrong though, and Bob Carver made some really awful PA speakers/amps 35 years ago.