pippin wrote: > 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 a power amp 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. > > But what I really found interesting is that it seems to be possible, > these days, to also get progress in getting correct phasing for your > signal and I also wasn't aware that the brain actually can _better_ > suppress multipath from omnidirectional speakers. I just asked that > stupid question (assuming more multipath would make things more > difficult, not easier) to a maker of such speaker a few weeks ago, you > never stop learning.
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