cliveb;620828 Wrote: > That's not strictly true. There are examples of amp and speaker > manufacturers collaborating in this arena. The obvious one is Linn and > Naim: the PMS Isobarik was originally developed to be driven by three > NAP250s. Another example was Nytech and a speaker company that I think > was called ARC. > > Of course, all of these setups using external general-purpose power > amps miss one of the big advantages of active: that the amps can be > tailored to the drive units and hence be much cheaper than using > generic amps that have to be able to drive passive speakers.
AS a former owner of active Bariks - indeed one of the very first owners of the Linn Aktiv crossover (I had #8...) I think I can say the Linn Naim marriage ended in messy divorce... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86483 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
