Wombat wrote: > Not only because they are around the corner but for the simple attempt > not often found at these high-end vendors i like Avantgarde Acoustics > ZERO 1 http://www.avantgarde-acoustic.de/zero1/_en/zero-einfach.html > No fancy peripherals needed just something easily available as Airport > Express to feed them.
Walking a bit out on a limb here (i.e., NOT and audiophile...), but this type of solution seems like the right path to me. The loudspeakers are usually the most difficult part of the audio system design, especially with the "typical" approach of feeding a hi-level full-range analog signal into a passive R/C set of filters to perform the cross-over into the transducers optimized for particular frequency bands. Reading the white-paper on the Squeezebox Boom design was something of an eye-opener. Keep the full-range signal digital, use DSP to perform the cross-over, use separate DAC outputs to individual amplifiers for each transducer. The amplifier/transducer can be optimized for the frequency range needed. The DSP filtering can be optimized much more than any analog filter, and provide responses not possible with R/C filters. The physical design of the speakers is still something of an "art", but the active approach seems to make sooooo much sense! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tcutting's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103847 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
