seraf123 wrote:
Cliveb,
I'm not Clive, so you can decide how to handle this interuption
So does that mean that I can connect the Transporter to ATC actives
like 150ASL or 100ASL and avoid connecting a power amp and the sound
will still be of great quality?
any downside to this setup?
You can connect the Transporter directly to any powered speakers and get
good to great quality, mostly dependant on the quality of the speakers.
There is a school of thought that says that powered speakers should be
able to sound substantially better, because the designer can match the
amplifier to the speaker, and put the bumps in the amp where the valleys
are in the speaker, etc. This is a lot easier than getting both the
speaker and the amp to be flat from 20 to 20kHz (let alone DC to
daylight :-)
There are lots of very high quality powered speakers. Most of them are
aimed at the "pro audio" studio market. I've got some Mackie 824 monitor
speakers in my studio, and they sound wonderful. They are not
particularly cheap, and are way too ugly for a reasonable WAF.
The studio oriented monitor speakers aim at a slightly different target,
they are aiming to be 'truthful' rather than 'musical'. The difference
is often very subtle, but lots of stuff in the sound world is pretty subtle.
Most studio oriented speakers also have level adjustments (usually small
and on the back) so that you can match their maximum output to the level
you are sending. This eliminates one of the major reasons that some
folks argue that connecting a SB3 directly to an amp (or powered
speakers) is a bad idea.
There are a huge number of quality studio monitor vendors. The biggest
problem, other than that they are usually low on WAF, is that you can
only listen to them if you live where there are active professional
studios, which is mostly the really big cities. There are lots of
mail/web sites, and most have decent return policies.
Most of, if not all, of the quality studio self powered monitors accept
balanced input over an XLR connection, so the Transporter would be
wonderful.
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Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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