I’d like to ask people’s experiences with these devices
Getting out of my comfort zone with advice of others to go active has been the best decision I’ve made in hifi. After toying with building some DSP actives speakers, analogue actives are what I ended up with, solely because of my experiences below.
I was originally open to DSP and streaming equipment. Streaming being probably the next step but my mind is awash with ideas, and still have no clue which is the most foolproof way for quality and reliability.
DSP has left me somewhat underwhelmed, and a little surprised. I’ve heard 4 DSP setups over approximately 3 (one of which yesterday, prompting this post!) years now and I’ve not really enjoyed any of them. I’m not sure what part dacs, power supplies and streaming gear (which I think all4 had in line with) has played in this but I found they mostly had the sound I would describe as a high quality docking station/Bluetooth speaker. I know that sounds a bit harsh but it sounded like someone had moved the graphic equaliser on my old aiwa stack system, not real sounding at all. I thought maybe it could be a setup problem or synergy across many boxes, but could they all have got it so wrong?!?! Two of the owners are very knowledgeable. One of the nitin sawhney tracks sounded so different on one systems, and being a fan asked him if it was a live recording, he said no it’s from the regular album!
Experiences please!
Getting out of my comfort zone with advice of others to go active has been the best decision I’ve made in hifi. After toying with building some DSP actives speakers, analogue actives are what I ended up with, solely because of my experiences below.
I was originally open to DSP and streaming equipment. Streaming being probably the next step but my mind is awash with ideas, and still have no clue which is the most foolproof way for quality and reliability.
DSP has left me somewhat underwhelmed, and a little surprised. I’ve heard 4 DSP setups over approximately 3 (one of which yesterday, prompting this post!) years now and I’ve not really enjoyed any of them. I’m not sure what part dacs, power supplies and streaming gear (which I think all4 had in line with) has played in this but I found they mostly had the sound I would describe as a high quality docking station/Bluetooth speaker. I know that sounds a bit harsh but it sounded like someone had moved the graphic equaliser on my old aiwa stack system, not real sounding at all. I thought maybe it could be a setup problem or synergy across many boxes, but could they all have got it so wrong?!?! Two of the owners are very knowledgeable. One of the nitin sawhney tracks sounded so different on one systems, and being a fan asked him if it was a live recording, he said no it’s from the regular album!
Experiences please!
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