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I notice there are growing umber of active bookshelf speakers out there. I would imagine as digital audio grows, the desire to plug in a digital coax into a powered speaker (that is connected via slave link), will only grow. To date, Meridian and some studio monitors are the ones using the tech, but it seems to be growing. Recently, there is this Australian company http://www.moosaudio.com/, and Dynaudio http://www.dynaudio.com/int/home_loudspeaker_systems/xeo/xeo.php, though I definitely don't want wireless speakers. Subject was also a focus of an Audiocircle post last year, http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=105702.0 Any chance that Salk would go this direction with their monitor/mini-monitor offering? Thanks
We've done active speakers in the past, but not mini-monitor. If there was enough interest, we would certainly investigate doing them.- Jim
Salk/active would be a winning combo! Just dreaming about an active WOW1. But please do active (one amplifier per driver with crossover upstream of amps) not powered (basically a matched amp built into a passive speaker). The advantages of truly active designs are several and significant. A few, like AVi or the new Quad 9AS are active pairs with all the electronics in one cabinet (including DAC/pre-amp) and a special cable connecting to the passive cabinet (thereby allowing for a single location for inputs and controls, even remote like many powered speakers).One of the active advantages is deeper/tighter bass, standmounts can replace floor standers with the added coherence of smaller driver arrays (and another positive attribute of active designs even with the small number/positioning of drivers).
XLR input!!! XLR input!!
a powered wow1 would be a pow1
or a POWWOW1 .....
I'm not following why you would expect tighter bass from the design you describe. The amp would still be working into a passive crossover. Is it just because the are dedicated amps for each driver? If that's the case, you could get the same result simply by bi-amping an existing Salk design.
Dennis,No, I'm thinking of a 'fully active' design (one amplification channel per driver, not 'powered' speakers that simply have an amp built into a multi-driver passive design). An active design (as most define it) feeds low voltage signal to the crossover (which can be more precise/sophisticated) that feeds each amp which feeds each driver all via very short cabling. "Simply bi-amping" costs more, takes more space, requires more cabling, and assumes I can match amps to drivers and pairings of amp/woofer with amp/tweeter as well as the designer.
That isn't what I was getting at in my original post. I want the Salk equivalent of these. http://www.electronichouse.com/article/hands_on_focal_solo6_be_active_monitors/