aye - and that would kind of defeat the advantage of it - Ill stick to passive for now - Ive always found active speakers a bit of a pain for larger site specific stuff because you have to run power to them as well as audio. These look like they might be OK for some stuff :
https://www.immersivedsp.com/products/spk-4p but Im a bit unsure as to what exactly they can do - can you daisy chain them (as discrete channels) or would you have to run a seperate ethernet cable to each one ? On 29 June 2017 at 17:04, Dave Hunt <davehuntau...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think that you'll find that an active speaker with an AVB input will > require more current than can be supplied over an ethernet cable. Perhaps > for very small speakers with a low power digital amplifier, but anything > decent would require mains (or DC batteries) to the speaker. > > The available current may power the DAC though. > > Ciao, > > Dave > > From: Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com> >> Date: 28 June 2017 22:06:52 BDT >> To: Surround Sound discussion group <sursound@music.vt.edu> >> Subject: Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations >> >> >> Hi Richard - >> There is lots of things that pan all around the room but the soundscape is >> designed in pre production for this installation and then its just a >> multichannel file (or seperate mono ones). Other installations I do are >> interactive and so sounds are processed and panned in realtime around the >> space depending on the sensors used etc. Certainly the AVB thing might be >> good for some less inhospitable environments- I especially like the way >> power can be taken to the the speakers via the ethernet cable..... >> > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachme > nts/20170629/0e011d85/attachment.html> > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -- Augustine Leudar Artistic Director Magik Door LTD Company Number : NI635217 Registered 63 Ballycoan rd, Belfast BT88LL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20170629/5b094292/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
