@patrickdowns I have heard the Dutch and Dutch and they sound good BUT they are DSP based and if memory serves me right, they down sample everything down to 64 khz. I also didn't like the fact that they needed a connection ran between both speakers. I do really like the active ATC speakers. They don't use DSP's and sound amazing.
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@willywonka - That I don't know. One cable to connect speakers doesn't seem much of a compromise, to me. YMMV |
Atc active 50s. Paired with Supratek Cortese LCR phono preamp. Atc impedance is crucial to match with a preamp, most tube preamps aren't neutral enough or able to have low enough impedance to match Atc. And that's defeats the purpose of Atc if you can't get the impedance within the parameters. I lived with the stick tubes for some time but eventually started rolling them. After several tube rolling rabbit holes I followed a recommendation of another Supratek owner who swapped out the two 6sn7 tubes with an adapter for quads, went with NOS (1942s in my case) 7193 2C22 Ken Rads and the rest was history....glorious sound...oh and later added cold extruded pure silver XLR Interconnects hand made in Australia which took to another level. |
Personally I have not gone fully active, but I love the idea of a clean simple system... Two speakers, a streamer, a power conditioner, 4 power cords and one or two interconnects.. Back in the day I used to install a lot of Genelec speakers which are very good neutral studio monitors but not what I would look at for a active system.. I heard Heavenly Soundworks at a couple shows and they are very impressive, incredible bass and soundstage from fairly compact speakers although I think they make some bigger stuff now...
Another amazing and really cool looking powered speakers brand is J Porter Studios out of Austin, those are pretty affordable and sounded wonderful, and looked really cool
A pair of either of those with a Aurender streamer and a DAC would be amazing
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