Yes. Def go active. Ive done an a and b dem with bricks and keltiks aswell. Bricks wipe the floor in all aspects. Thete is so much musicality in bricks and thre tight bass . Amazing. Not seen that in any of the latest speakers out there. Even the 50k plus ones. Been to so many hifi shows. Not been all that impressed. Im going to stick my neck out and say. Active Bricks . Nothing can beat them.
To be fair, I had them sounding great with KXOs but they are very room and placement dependent, I would imagine that Exakt mitigates that dependency somewhat.
Well Keltiks were active only from the outset, you just got to choose your amps unlike models with inbuilt amps. The downside of Keltiks is that they tend to need plenty of room around them and/or a well damped room. Get them right and they sound great.
That isobarik midrange must have coloured your judgement as well as your music
That is an awful lot of money.
I agree, it is, but in the context of a speaker that cost as much as Keltiks did (when new), it’s not an insane sum, and it’s very justifiable with a speaker like the Ninka too... still, it’ll take me an awful lot of saving to pay for it, especially since I now have to self isolate for the foreseeable future!
Yes, you could build a Pi based streamer and use a MiniDSP and your own power amplifiers, you might save a few quid but you’d have to write your own crossover profiles, it won’t anywhere near be as slick to use and it’s unlikely to sound as good.
Hmm, that's quite a lot of technology. I hoped you were going to say a pile of amps and a Behringer XO would do most of it.
I don’t know much about the behringer crossovers or how customisable they are but a MiniDSP or Linn Exakt crossover can apply both intricate driver correction and time alignment as well as taking care of room correction... and of course the Exakt system does include a very competent streamer... and the entry level system includes eight channels of power amplification.
Yes, you could bi-amp the bass on Briks!
I’d love Komris but as you say, VERY rare, and expensive, and I’d have to turn my current listening room into the main living room, open out the archway between the current living room and dining room and then turn that into my new listening room... ain’t gonna happen. In the very long term I’d like to turn my current living room and dining room into a kitchen diner and then demolish my current kitchen and build a new, large orangery, that space would take Komris no problem... just need a miracle to happen first!
