What are your opinions of DSP's for speakers


This seems to be a popular trend with many speaker brands. Some have internal amplification with DSP's and some have external implementations of it like Legacy. I have heard some good results with it being used but don't necessarily like the idea of everything being digitized for the sake of room/bass correction. Do you own or plan on buying a speaker like this, or have you heard any using it? 

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Ah yes people allergic to DSP who expect bass integration in room to be a magical thing to do... Y’all are not ready to send your already good system to the next level. Don’t conflate terrible DSP implementation (which from the comments seem to be the case with the lot of you) with actually integrated and well used DSP. So yeah DSP is actually what to do when you have the speaker/room/treatment coupling achieved. Anyone who says otherwise, I say, skill issue.

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I bought a pair of dsp 8000’s after getting frustrated trying to get a quality system completed. Without the means or experience to match speakers and components to my room while trying to stay in budget was driving me mad. 
 

I remember my first listening session with my wife after upgrading them to se (special edition) and sitting in awe at how beautiful everything sounded. I didn’t realize yet that hifi was more than music to me but also an upgrade hobby and after a couple years I got the itch again. There’s not a lot of tweaking left for owners of dsp systems and while my 8K’s still give goosebumps they don’t satisfy my need for the occasional new car smell’.

 

  For those of us that fell in love with the speakers at shop demo only to bring them home and have them sound like crap will appreciate the consistency of active dsp systems.

@markley -- "What is DSP?"

I don't see anyone has answered your question. DSP is the acronym for Digital Signal Processing.  It is often implemented these days using parametic EQ which can fine tune the equalization much more specifically than traditional EQ or tone controls.  It is usually setup with a measurement microphone using frequency sweeps to find peaks and valleys for the in-room response.