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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.

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@mijostyn , as for multichannel there are fewer recordings being made than in the past, as for Atmos it is snowballing. Atmos is OBJECT based, not CHANNEL based. It is a different category, not channel based at all. All you need to experience it is a set of the right headphones. Stop by the atmos music thread if you want to discuss. 

 

@thespeakerdude Something we haven't mentioned is the nature of class D amps when they can be designed for a particular impedance of speaker they can be very good, this is why a class D Subs are not so much of a compromise it acts basically like an AB amp. With class D amps being designed for a smaller frequency window of driver the normal problem with class D amps is helped because impedance changes with frequency so the filter circuit can be much simpler. Thoughts?

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@steakster , have you noticed that with the exception of small boutique brands, no one from any supplier obviously participates in audio forums with rare exceptions where maybe there is a supplier corner? There is a reason for that. No matter what you say, you will make 50% of the people unhappy. Most companies have either formal or informal rules against it for any of their customer facing or senior staff. That is the situation I am.

As well, it would be wrong for me unless I was a paid advertiser to advertise who I work for and hence our products.