JezA;384980 Wrote: > As far as the O/P is concerned, I don't know the Dynaudios, but the > company recently won the competition to suppy the BBC with monitors, so > that's a good start - definitely worth short-listing. Balanced inputs, > response-trim - all you need is a Transporter or a pre-amp with > balanced out and you've got what could be a great system. Get some > decent (high) stands, listen to them on axis fairly near-field. No > amp/speaker matching issues, no speaker cables .. what could be easier. > All other things being equal (and they aren't always) an active speaker > has overwhelming advantages over a passive one.
Indeed, one of the main ones being the removal of the passive crossover that can suck the pace, life and power out of the music and letting the amps really "grip" the speaker drivers via correctly sloped active filters... oh and you get more volume for our watts! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58179 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
