Since many of the recent threads on this sub section have quickly devolved into flame wars and name calling perhaps a thread with less "audiophile" baggage might result in a more meaningful and worthwhile discussion. Let's see how this subject works out, shall we.
The world of audio is changing in many ways due to the wide spread acceptance and use of digital audio. One example of this is the way that streaming audio has changed the way we think about music collections, i.e. one central music library location (server) feeding many separate audio systems and all of it controlled by a smart phone or tablet. One of the great features of digital audio is that digital audio offers the ability to re-engineer the entire audio playback chain from top to bottom. This new approach to playback can be something as simple as room correction via a digital signal processor or something as radical as a digital audio server (music server) feeding digitally active speakers without need for any of the more traditional audio equipment (DACs, pre-amps, power amps and lots of wires and interconnects). By digitally active speakers I am referring to speakers that contain all the components (DSPs, DACs and amps) right in the speaker and that can be controlled from a computer, tablet or smart phone. Now the pro audio world has been moving in this direction for quite some time but when might the high end audio world take this step and what might the results look and sound like? Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103847 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
