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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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kota1
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@dabel

OK, if you got a point about active speakers or JBL go for it ...

dabel
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Forgive me, for I have no input. I’ve just been following along :-) 

kota1
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@donavabdear

Why would a guy with your experience and education be shopping for $25K speakers and tube amps from a killer salesman when you had a full blown atmos system with a L-C-R channel driven by 450W of bespoke power each, 8 surround and height channels driven by 130W of bespoke amplification each, plus two matching 11 inch subs. That is well over 2kw of bespoke amplification + the active crossover + the 2 subs + the 11 speakers for the same price of just two towers from the killer saleman pitching towers and tubes?

What were you thinking??

kota1
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BTW, if you don’t like Focals you could take that same budget and build a great active atmos setup with neumann, jbl, dynaudio, ATC, etc.

kota1
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I look at these JBL’s and immediately want to build another HT just to house them, three 708P as L-C-R ($2K each biamped with 500 watts) matched with eight 703P ($1100 each biamped with 370 watts) brings a system in around $15K, for 11 speakers and over 4.5kw of bespoke amplification. With a $25K budget you have $10K left over for subs.

Now if you want a passive setup all good, JBL has the HDI series but expect to pay a lot more for the additional amps and get a lot less power.

 

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