try to name another industry that you can spend $100s of thousands of dollars on pieces that weren't made to fit together.
Freeway design companies for any big city??
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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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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. I don't doubt that I would like one but I love my Sunfire sub. Maybe if I need another one in the future. The sub on my "watch" list is the Paradigm Millenia sub (wall mount) so I can run it high on the wall near my height channels to try some localized bass from above the listening area for immersive audio. |
If you ever come up with a recommendation for my $40K active home theater I will consider you "unlost". Until then, a guy with your handle that can't even put together a system, in an audio chat room, surrounded by threads about systems, that claims to read everything, every month related to audio, does seem to be ............ |
To have such a list, there would need to be variables associated with each component. I would challenge anyone to come up with the variables for that list. They would start with resistance in some form; amplifier output resistance, cable resistance, speaker input resistance (impedance over frequency). Then they would sit for hours trying to come up with a second quantifiable variable. Maybe they would add a check box column for compatibility; some amplifiers do not like very low impedance speakers. Most solid state amplifiers will behave the same no matter what speaker you connect them to. Most tube amplifiers will behave differently for every speaker you connect them to. Amplifier/speaker "compatibility" is a losing/loose proposition that may by luck improve a speaker/room issue by a small measure that could have been definitively solved by much better methods. The distortion mechanism of tubes is a wild card. Speakers are never independent of rooms. I don’t think a compatibility score is possible as the speaker room interaction could negate any result you arrive at. For headphones, I have seen specialized amplifiers for specific headphones, and only those headphones. They implement custom equalization for that headphone. Apparently the tube amplifier with headphones shtick is similar to the tube amplifier with speakers shtick. Tube amplifiers for headphones are much higher output resistance than SS amplifiers. OTL tube amplifiers like their speaker counterparts are very high output resistance. Depending on the headphone, that is a large change in the frequency response. Headphones are all over the place with frequency response. Not hard to see a tube amplifier often resulting in an improved frequency response.
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@thespeakerdude I'm sorry for even making you think of that. Thanks for the answer. It would be a frustrating project because it's practically untestable. |
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