Originally Posted by Andreas
We are at page 4, I make a bet we hit page 6 easily.

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This debate over self made speaker unit is like comparing apples and oranges. Who in the entire hifi business is designing the speaker units themselves and all the electronics in an active way?

Good you said "Hifi"....

Dynaudio comes at least close, they build their own amplifiers, at least they have and their own drivers are widely used by other brands. They just don't sell active reference speakers to consumers, and their pro modells probably use standard amps. Same is true for Focal btw.

Anyway, mostly only Meridian users have understood the benefits of active speakers, plus some smaller brands (like Backes and Müller, etc). otherwise we would see much more active speaker brands in the consumer industry. The others that have understood are left dry and secure in the professional world......

I would love to mix on Dynaudio DSP speakers oh man, price keeps me away from that ultimately, I guess if I could make money with mixes that would be on top of list! But there's also great DAC and superb mid field and full studio monsters out there, untouchable for us mortal... I'm rather ecclectic in sound and am sure curious of what this clear sound from the North is made of.

On the active vs passive matter I guess people like the unit by unit upgrade path a little bit like old seperate hifi habits from the origin. But now that digital is the reality traditionalism is a negation of the present. Meridian can be proud to have pionneer the field! Sorry for the english folks french here.

861v2, DSP3100, DSP3100HC