jimbobvfr400 wrote: > Yes it's 1 paragraph in a very interesting 5 page article. Worth a read > IMO >
Yep. And especially... With a good active speaker design it's not just cables. If you do this right you don't need (and don't WANT) DACs, preamps, power amps, DSPs and all that other stuff that makes a hifi system today. Just speakers with a network connection and a display somewhere else to show what's playing. And that setup will actually beat everything you get in terms of high-end audio today at what's probably a few percent of the price. It will come, I'm not worried. First progress has been made, these days you don't really have to use a preamp and there's also no passive crossover in modern speakers anymore. There are speakers that can run directly on RL encoded digital signals (actually, they have been around for 20 years or so so progress isn't always fast, indeed) so you don't need a DAC and so on. I'm not worried about the few "audiophiles" who believe in their collection of expensive signal-loss accumulators, let them do as they like and be happy with it, all others can experience superior audio at a lower price, that's fine. What worried me more was the "convergence" with devices for video because the requirements are so different and a lot of vendors thought that - since movies need sound as well - video equipment could do music, too. That has let development stall a lot. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101784 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
