Not just active, but digital, DSP-based speakers

[J.D]

The real measurement will happen tomorrow. I can some home in time

[Redwine]

Hi Chris,

Noted your favour of Dynaudio, do you still have to ajust volume using a Dynaudio remote?
I guess the Roon app can’t do it.

[Chris_Bartlett]

I do - (and I’m no expert here) but I think it depends on the endpoint/source you are using. In my case I’m using an inuos zen and raspberry pi with hat to effectively give me ethernet in, Digital out - so really don’t want to be adjusting the signal at either point (not there there is an option).
Interestingly, I switched from using the hifiberry digi+ to the digione signature with shanti power supply. Despite this being entirely in the digital domain - you’d think bits in - bits out, right? - the difference is night and day - seriously, one of the most impressive upgrades I have ever done. I borrowed a DigiOne sig/shanti from a friend and on trying it in a blind listening session, my wife just said ‘buy it’. With the Dynaudios, image just snapped into focus, soundstage extended forward and back. They now do what I always wanted them todo. awesome… (but yeah - still controlling volume with the Dynaudio remote…)

[ScreenMachine (James)]

@Nyquist

That is a common mistake amongst many audiophiles. You really do not need expensive ugly acoustical treatment. In fact, changing your room into a recording studio makes things actually worse. Loudspeaker/room interaction has nothing to do with overdampening your room, like I said a cpmmon mistake. Moderate lively room (not a bathtub) with enough diffusing elements like bookshelfs, furniture, art on the wall, etc. Combine this with a loudspeaker with a very broad constant directivitity (preferably all the way from 20hz to 20khz) and e voila.

I have seen and heard these kind of room treatments you are referring to but it’s not the way to do. They put a loudspeaker with a pretty bad acoustic power response in a typical living room and try to improve it’s response by dampening the early refelections. You have to think the other way around. It is important to have an even reverbant field. In pther words, what you need is a flat frequency response thst is still flat in the reverbant field 20 msec of delay later. That is the kind of thing dsp room correction can not do for you it can only make it’s effect a little less worse. You can however make clever use of dsp in the loudspeaker design itself to give it a more even power response. Something like kiii three does for example. Cardioids like the kiii, omnis like MBL or dipoles like Linkwitz design all adress room interaction way better then a typical boxed speaker. A boxed speaker with dsp room correction applied is not the same thing.

What I don’t understand about many audiophiles is that they discuss minor differences between cables, power supplies, etc etc to death while they do not want to adress the most important part of the whole audio playback chain, loudspeaker/room interaction.

This is a great post. Really. I think you should expand on it even more…

[Norman_Spector]

I have the DSP 7200 SE speakers and couldn’t agree more. And listening to hi-res or dsd music files just blows away vinyl on a Linn turntable

[RobertW]

Yes, thats definatly a shame for the Demo.

[Chrislayeruk (Chris)]

Meridian DSP 5200 SEs here and I couldn’t be happier with everything I throw at them…

[Norman_Spector]

Highly recommend this recording 1st and 3rd movements of # 2 in particular

[Aaron_Garrett]

Great sound on my Grimm speakers.

[ScreenMachine (James)]

Meridian DSP SEs are really great speakers.

I’m currently running a 5.1 Meridian system with 3xDSP5000 (fronts), 2xDSP3100 (rears), 1xSW1600 (sub) and an 861v4 processor.

To me, Trifield/centre channel makes a huge difference, as does having 5.1 true channels on movie soundtracks.