Hm, while you are taking this apart... Has any one of you actually HEARD this speaker? I mean... As much as it's audiophile mythology that you have to hear your power cables to know how you sound as much it is important for speakers.
I do agree that 3000W is an awful lot of power for an active system but it's peak power and as long as we don't know averages it doesn't mean much, especially for a long excursion system. Also... It's a myth that you invariably need membrane size and volume. Active pressure wave shaping works and with modern high performance magnets you can get the excursions required and with modern DSPs you can actively form your signal. All possible, the difficulty is to get it right to avoid distortions. That's where I'd see some open questions: for a well-working active design you want one amplifier per channel (woofer, tweeter, mid range), with a DSP based equalization also with its own DAC each, do they have that? I see nothing in this design that can't work theoretically to make a really good speaker at this size, whether they succeeded depends a lot on how much they overcame the many technical challenges on the implementation side. I think to really judge on this thing one needs to hear it first. --- 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 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105563 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
