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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.
Paradigm? It’s not the electronics, simply move on. +1- he knew he should have used active speakers from the get go and got side tracked. Hit the bid on the passive speakers that didn't get the bass right, the buzzing subs, the amps that burn tubes so fast you can cook bacon on them, the speaker wire and make bank. Now you got funds for the ACTIVE Focals and the room treatments (wife approved variety of course). Keep the Genelecs. |
Focal both pioneered and perfected the beryllium tweeter design. Incredibly light and rigid, beryllium is said to offer a faster, more linear transient response than titanium or aluminum designs. Its only real downside is that it’s poisonous if ingested, so no licking the tweeters… and no, you’re not supposed to touch them, either! The Trio6 Be is a triamplified active design. There’s a 200 W Class G amp for the 8” driver, a 150 W Class G amp for the 5” driver, and a 100W Class AB amp on the tweeter. The Trio6 Be has a range of 35 Hz to 40 kHz with a 115 dB SPL. You couldn’t do this type of amplification in a passive speaker for this much money. It would be crazy triamping with 450 watts per speaker and an outboard crossover. https://recordingmag.com/resources/featured-reviews/focal-trio6-be/ |
Again, why would @donavabdear want to downgrade from the Genelecs to the Focals. Regurgitating marketing blurbs is not an argument. Neither is summing up amplifier power and saying "its 450 watts" without understanding what frequencies power peaks in music are always at. Volume will be limited by the bass driver. Effectively it is 200W or a little more. |
@m-db Thank you for the link, I've mixed hundreds of orchestras and I always bump up the cello and bass, when I did that to me it always made everything else sound better just like a sub makes vocals better in a stereo system. In an orchestra the beautiful instruments are not the 1st violins but the low instruments. When mixing group vocals the big mistake is to over feature that star lead singer and not do most of the mixing of the lower range vocalists. |
