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The mainstream use of DSP I see is in receivers trying to recreate another type of sound like "rock concert", "orchestra hall" or something else where they deliberately create a tailored EQ curve, add digital reverb, etc. These almost universally sound bad even on poor recordings.
When you get to the enthusiast level most people are pretty well educated that trying to create a flat frequency response at the listening position won't sound good and IME this even goes back to the TacT days.
I agree that DSP should be used to create a neutral speaker which is why I'd leave it to the designer to do so. Then use additional DSP to integrate subwoofers. When I've heard the Giya I have never felt they needed something extra done to them beyond the transitional frequency, but YMMV as those were in short listening sessions and I wouldn't discount the advice of owners.
Re- Beolab I never looked into them because I thought they had their own ecosystem to operate? I'm much more attracted to a speaker that can function independently with a variety of software. ie the DSP/amps/speaker is its own black box and just requires any analog or digital input to function, so any software player could be used, further convolution could be done upstream if the user wanted to and so on.
When you get to the enthusiast level most people are pretty well educated that trying to create a flat frequency response at the listening position won't sound good and IME this even goes back to the TacT days.
I agree that DSP should be used to create a neutral speaker which is why I'd leave it to the designer to do so. Then use additional DSP to integrate subwoofers. When I've heard the Giya I have never felt they needed something extra done to them beyond the transitional frequency, but YMMV as those were in short listening sessions and I wouldn't discount the advice of owners.
Re- Beolab I never looked into them because I thought they had their own ecosystem to operate? I'm much more attracted to a speaker that can function independently with a variety of software. ie the DSP/amps/speaker is its own black box and just requires any analog or digital input to function, so any software player could be used, further convolution could be done upstream if the user wanted to and so on.