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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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This is a very good matched system, I suggest you start reading some new research, the stuff you are subscribing to is deadwood:

 

@kota1 I agree with @thespeakerdude in general passive speakers that have amplifiers matched to them is definitely level 2 audio, I imagine the only reason you would make a speaker that way is to really cater to very high end people, the manufacture would be limiting its self by designing the idea that this amp only goes with this speaker, you and I know that is ridiculous but it seems most audiophiles don't think in terms of physics but fun and status. Best practices in speaker building are not interesting to audiophiles, try to name another industry that you can spend $100s of thousands of dollars on pieces that weren't made to fit together.

Sorry but the host of this video didn't really have a clue there were many clues one was he said the JL Audio CR-1 was a JL sub amp and they had turned them off well there weren't any JL subs there and the CR-1 is an analog crossover, it's actually a very cool piece of gear you may be interested in, look it up it is a crossover between the stereo subs and the home theater subs, and LFE channels, it's a one of a kind unit and I'm surprised you don't own one. Also he mentioned the speakers were made for the Mac amp he used that phrase not in a precise manner, it's a hugely powerful amp and the speakers needed a hugely powerful amp like that one to work them. Im sure that in no way is that amp and the drivers in that speaker designed for each other in any way except for broad functions like total power and probably being about to go down to 2 ohms without going belly up.

@kota1 You brought up the TV show "Lost" I turned down that show and 3 of my friends worked on it and got fired, it was run by producers that didn't understand why they couldn't shoot next to a freeway in Hawaii and not hear it on the tracks. They literally went through 7 sound mixers on that show. The producers thought you could push some buttons and turn some knobs that would take out anything unwanted on the recording, why besides being typical idiots they saw things on shows like mine on CSI Miami that was alway using sound in impossible ways. Sound is invisible and sexy and practically no one understands it that's why there is so much mythology around it even on this forum. 

So, a CEO walks into a board meeting and says he is taking the company in a new direction, let’s build stuff that doesn’t match? No.
So the guys at Macintosh made a mistake? OK, let’s go with that.

Let’s take JBL, yes they make boomboxes and stuff at the low end. They have a separate line called JBL Synthesis:

I don’t know how you believe they just go by "yeah, whatever’ and then just throw it out to the marketing guys to spin it. Yes, they design it to match:

 

You brought up the TV show "Lost" I turned down that show and 3 of my friends worked on it and got fired,

That’s good news for @thespeakerdude , maybe he can post for the opening 🤣

The producers thought you could push some buttons and turn some knobs that would take out anything unwanted on the recording, 

I detect a match made in heaven for @thespeakerdude , give him a recommendation from both of us and I'll get him some buttons for the interview.

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