Mnyb;642787 Wrote: > yes I to have Meridian but DSP cant fix everything, imho it's a way to > get things even better :) but you must have a good starting point. > > As pointed out here and elsewhere an active speaker with built in amps > and DSP filters should give more bang for the buck than separate units, > the solution is not only better but also cheaper. > But this is not the case in the real world to little competition and > almost no "midfi" products, there is AVi adm9 basically ? > > How cheaper ? have anyone seen what these high end passive fillter > components cost air-wound coils the size of footballs and beer can > sized capacitors they are way more expensive than the silicon in any > active fillter ?
I agree... there are many things that cannot be changed by changing the electrical signal. The acoustic radiation pattern cannot be changed with EQ. Effects that are seen on one axis of measurement and not others are issues that can be equalized, but you are trading off one measurement for the other. The trick is to know what can and what should not be changed in the electrical transfer function and that isn't so much a problem with DSP as it is a problem with the people using it (knowing how to use the tool). I also agree that it is can be cheaper to do an active design than it is to do most passive designs that involve anything but very simple passive filters. In production quantities, it adds very little cost but the market isn't driven by standard economies of scale like the computer industry. Most audio companies are small with even the big-dogs being small on a global scale. The audio industry in general is driven by non-rational purchasing behavior where complex things drive the consumer's desire for goods so you cannot just engineer a better than the competitions product and have it be an instant success. Success requires good marketing and in the case of active loudspeakers, you would have to change the paradigm of an entire market of audiophiles who don't buy active designs. -- Kevin Haskins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Haskins's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30729 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88582 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
