wow!, excellent responses; appreciated. i'm convinced that going active for ht is the way to go; maybe not necessarily for music 2 channel listening. it has only been since i've been recording for my son's band with a mac and cubase, that i got the idea of going with active monitors.
it would seem that even the big theatre house would benefit a great deal with such a setup. after all, running speaker cables for hundreds of feet, i imagine would most certainly degrade quality. of course, some may already use the active approach. (in my search, i found some commercial active monitors - way too big and ugly for a home theatre)
i still have a "traditional" stereo setup that i will in all likelihood keep intact for my main music listening. running an active design approach alongside will be a neat comparison, although i'm not sure it will be a fair one -(see my virtual system).
any others in addition to mackie, yamaha, dynaudio or jbl that i should include on my shortlist? also, what about ht processors with balanced outputs? i know sunfire makes one and perhaps b&k, but any others to consider?
t.i.a. -e
it would seem that even the big theatre house would benefit a great deal with such a setup. after all, running speaker cables for hundreds of feet, i imagine would most certainly degrade quality. of course, some may already use the active approach. (in my search, i found some commercial active monitors - way too big and ugly for a home theatre)
i still have a "traditional" stereo setup that i will in all likelihood keep intact for my main music listening. running an active design approach alongside will be a neat comparison, although i'm not sure it will be a fair one -(see my virtual system).
any others in addition to mackie, yamaha, dynaudio or jbl that i should include on my shortlist? also, what about ht processors with balanced outputs? i know sunfire makes one and perhaps b&k, but any others to consider?
t.i.a. -e