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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.

donavabdear11-21-2022 7:24pm

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thespeakerdude Details Discussions Posts This discussion 483 posts 03-15-2023 at 10:27pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete
donavabdear OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 481 posts 03-16-2023 at 03:58am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @thespeakerdude @kota1 Well darn the guy with the stereo store didn't want to buy my building, he took a month to tell me, oh well, no free upgrades. Thank you both for your wise guidance, I truly appreciate all your insights.
kota1 Details Discussions Posts This discussion 2,706 posts 03-16-2023 at 04:32am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Sure, NP. Post some graphs on your system page when you get the new genelec crossover. @thespeakerdude Post some graphs on your system page if you ever get a system.🤥
thespeakerdude Details Discussions Posts This discussion 483 posts 03-16-2023 at 05:33am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @donavabdear , I better hear about you sending those JL subs in for service or I am going to drop a bollock! :-) .... which I honestly have no idea what that means in totality, but I always liked the sound of it and it doesn't get censored so it can't be that bad.
thespeakerdude Details Discussions Posts This discussion 483 posts 03-16-2023 at 05:41am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete For the record @kota1, while I have generally respected Magico, I lost some respect for them looking at their crossovers: Foil wounds inductors on an iron core? That is just about the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Foil inductors are already sort of dumb, but a low frequency coil foil wound on an iron core? That is just pandering. Worse, is one of those crossovers is from a $70,000 speaker. For $70,000 for speakers, they could afford a 2 layers PCB instead of being cheap and going single layer. Even the PCB in the much cheaper PS Audio speaker is double sided. Why is double sided important? Strength and reliability. The connection soldered on both sides of the PCB (and the connecting hole) is much stronger which is important with heavy parts.