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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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@erik_squires I feel the same about the video :-).  If it's the dip I think you mean that is likely just the stacked two way dip.

it seems odd to me that speakers don’t do frequency plots like microphone plots showing off axis coloration at different frequencies.

Meh. How many cars do you see sold with rpm/torque curves?  These aren't lab instruments sold to post-doc researchers. 

@donavabdear this is a heat map distribution plot. It provides a lot more detail than what you are likely used to with microphones. Not the easiest to read. This is a 2 way vertical distribution:

 

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If you look at the pic of my system I have the Paradigm matching active CC below the screen and the passive Paradigm CC above the screen (active would be too heavy for a ceiling mount). When you sandwich a big screen between two CC’s like this the sound seems like it is coming from the center of the screen.

@thespeakerdude is limited to cutting and pasting from other websites like his graph here, maybe he can cut and paste a picture of a CC, that would be impressive. The guy couldn’t even recommend a system with a $200K budget, if you feel like having him "point" somewhere I think you will be lost in 60 seconds LOL.🤡

@kota1 for reasons only known to you you have issues with me. Feel free to direct message me and rant all you want. Be respectful and don’t make your issue everyone else’s issue as you are doing. It is disrespectful to everyone else here. Only you can make the actions of not making your beef everyone else's problem.