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My wife likes big speakers, as long as they have that brutalist look (and moves on wheels...very important). As alwyas aesthetics are personal, but there are rules to make things look pleasing.

That frequency response is really bad. Why would you want a boost in the 300Hz-1KHz range? Theses speakers will sound muddy and without bass.

At one point, I really liked the aesthetics. He's a fashion designer, so he has some talents in blending everything together, furniture and audio, to create a cohesive look/siganture, with the hammertone or the pewter grey for instance. Now it has become more of a gimmick where the guy is...

Full active DSP is not cheap, if you compare it with passive speaker (three ways) : - one dsp unit instead of nothing. - 6 amplification units instead of two. - no passive components versus passive crossover. - measurement device instead of nothing needed in passive. it gives you the ultimate...

The reste of the setup for home office, and Kitchen. Everything is sourced from LMS digital library running on a Pi5.

this is mine, all diy except the turntable & minidsp:

In my setup, I tried a tripath, and various TA3255. They all had an unreasonable amount of hiss when paired with my high sensibility compression driver & horn. So I bit the bullet and installed three hypex nc400 (one for bass with dedicated power supply, one for medium and one for the high with...

Genelec 8030 should be enough as to sound level. Angle them downward high on the wall.

I don't know "audiophile" but once you have active speakers with DSP, from a reputable brand like genelec, or these Harbeth, the only thing preventing you from enjoying your music is the shit recording that suddenly becomes so glaringly audible. Active DSP is the way to go.

This is more or less my diy setup: 6 hypex amplifiers, a pair of three ways speakers with a minidsp flex 8 and Dirac. Even factoring the hours I spent, I am far from £50k. And my speakers are way bigger :)

I experimented with my DIY three way (tri amped, DSP crossover (all LR24) ), the high is a horn with a compression driver. The horn length makes the compression driver sits quite far from the woofer and mid woofer "plane". I made a mistake and delayed the horn even further by 0.3ms and the sound...

Ripped it once in mp3 in 2005, and I flaced my entire CD collection 2 years ago. It stays on two different disks. The hardest part is actually finding a computer with a decent cd player... I barely use streaming as I don't want to pay for it, I use the free version to listen to new stuff, and...

I thought at first it was some sort of crazy diy job where the builder covered a botched baffle on the side with corian. The metal rods will introduce some ringing, so the concrete pipe from side to side are a way to minimize that, and adding some rigidity, that would be my guess.

I use these: https://www.neutrik.com/en/neutrik/products/xlr-connectors/xlr-chassis-connectors/a-series?c=audio and more precisely, this one: Female connector -1 = mating connector shell to pin1 and front panel This way, I never had ground loop issue: pin1 connects to the shell and the chassis...

I have moved my genelec 8030C on my desk, and they are now roughly one meter from my head. They are connected to a DAC, which is connected to my computer. I have to crank down to 6% volume on the computer, more than that and it is uncomfortable, I will measure tonight how much SPL it means, but...