konut;620885 Wrote: > This is categorically untrue. I owned a pair of Magnaplanar Tympani 1Ds > that utilized a passive line level XO that I purchased in 1979 and ran > for 15 years. I did not realize at the time what a stroke of genius > this was. I successfully biamped with a number of different amps to > great effect. It is only that speaker companies CHOOSE NOT TO sell > speakers utilizing this method of bi-amping. A PLLXO solve many > problems of implementation that active XOs present. The only downside > is insertion loss. > Speaker companies choose not to market this way, not trusting > their customers to implement correctly, with good reason. Unless you > know what you're doing its easy to screw up.
Those maggies and their passive xo are not what I was talking about!. Not an "active" system... The only real example that actually sold in any quantity(!) was the Linn speakers with Naim amps and XO... -- 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
