drummerman
pfm Member
As above.
As above.
To enjoy vastly improved sound quality.A conspicuous lack of proven long-term serviceability aside from say ATC and MEG. No one wants to drop big bucks on what may be landfill technology in a few years. Loudspeakers are the simplest and most long-term reliable components in the whole audio chain, many of the very best designs are already half a century or more old and still going strong. Why would anyone risk combining this longevity and reliability with flavour of the month digital technology?
To enjoy vastly improved sound quality.
Keith
But DSP is not a feature of active speakers. It may be found in some active speakers, but you could stick it in various places. And it's just an equaliser. Unless it's a genuine non linear psychoacoustic processor, like an optimod, aural exciter or whatever this weeks gizmo is.
There don't seem to be all that many active speakers designed for the domestic market that are priced to sit within the average persons budget (unless they've just passed me by or haven't been discussed much). If I sold all my kit I could probably afford to buy about 15% of a pair of those kii 3's that people keep rattling on about. Are there many half decent quality active options for the domestic user in the £500-£1000 bracket?
Plus not everyone wants something that looks like it's trying very hard to be ultra-modern and cutting edge, some of us still like rectangular boxes with nice real wood veneer even if they'd be filled with the latest technology.
P.S. I have owned 2 pairs of actives, and probably would have kept the 2nd pair if it weren't for the furore their looks generated in my family, looking like weird space eggs as they were
I was going to say the same. HIFI is largely as much or even more a hobby than it a means to an end, and actives remove much of the hobby aspect. Other than that, a lot of actives are nearfield monitors which don’t work so well for use in a living room at larger distances.Nothing to fiddle with, no upgrades to sell
That’s a good point that I hadn’t really thought about, I’m actually pretty handy with SMD rework so these things don’t tend to bother me, I service my own kit... the killer would be if an obsolete DSP chip fails or you get a big short on a multilayer PCB which burns internal traces, the latter can sometimes be fixed with a schematic, some mod wire and a lot of patience but it ain’t pretty.A conspicuous lack of proven long-term serviceability aside from say ATC and MEG. No one wants to drop big bucks on what may be landfill technology in a few years. Loudspeakers are the simplest and most long-term reliable components in the whole audio chain, many of the very best designs are already half a century or more old and still going strong. Why would anyone risk combining this longevity and reliability with flavour of the month digital technology?