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@MKR Do these speakers have DSP?

No I’m not. In responding to someone asking why is Ethernet lossy, you wrote "Because collisions can happen with two talkers attempting to transmit at the same time.”. I wanted to be less blunt, but that is flatly wrong. Ethernet has a protocol for dealing with this situation, it will NOT cause...

That doesn’t mean “lossy”, it relies on the exponential back-off algorithm to do re-transmission. Ethernet is simply lossy because there’s no guarantee that the other end won’t dump your stuff, e.g. because of congestion.

They're not full range, which is a core requirement.

"The 8c's directional design avoids early reflections" (Dutch & Dutch 8C manual, page 13) "The reflections from the sidewalls, which might smear the stereo image, would therefore be lower in level than with a conventional design [...] I echo Kal's conclusion that the D&D 8c demonstrates that...

You might be dissatisfied. Better listen to it first.

I like this thread and I’m interested in hearing what @MKR is going to end up buying. Would you kindly make a different thread for discussing how ”bright“ KEF speakers are, if that’s what really irks you? It’s just completely off topic here.

10 minutes at 180degC in the air fryer, I guess?

Well, you started with the 25kHz hearing test... I merely upgraded it, for fun. Physiological reasons aren't preferences. You keep saying that, but I'm not assuming it's random. It could be that 60% of the general population likes no reflections, just to make something up, but your 20-person...

Sure thing, you can look at 10 people and determine they have no wings and thus extrapolate to the world's population, but that's not research. When it comes to preferences, which can vary widely, these studies are way too underpowered to show anything except that a few people in the study...

Halleluiah! No idea why this isn't a base feature for all active speakers. This alone puts them on my upgrade list. Any suggestions for a prettier stand? The one they sell is just hideous.

At best misleading. And "per group"? What does that prove? How many groups? Citation? "Remicade’s approval [August 1998] represented the culmination of two independent sets of research that began in 1975 when both TNF and hybridoma technology". There was significant research done for many...

That's way too few people to provide any kind of statistical power.

There are so many trade-offs. For amplifiers, there’s a wide variety of products and you might run into the trade-off of power vs SINAD. For DAC/streamers, you have such different feature sets. For speakers, to date I have never heard different type speakers, including of the same brand, that...

I didn’t say it was.

Is it though? To me, there's more. For example, something that's plausible (not necessarily true) e.g. all things being equal, a DAC equipped with an AKM chip will sound different from an ESS vs something that's not even plausible, e.g. putting cables on raisers will affect sound quality. It's...

I've cared more and more about how and why, but this didn't move me from "subjectivist" to "objectivist", rather from "non-particularly-informed-but-without-strong-beliefs" to "somewhat-informed-and-experienced-with-mild-beliefs". I've always tried DSP, whenever available, while thinking that...

I did research and found no nice answer. If a speaker has volume control and no fixed volume input, it can be used for HT but it’s a pain. Basically you calibrate the AVR with a reasonable volume set on the speakers (using a dB meter). Then every time you want to watch a movie, you have to...

I don't know if @MKR is planning HT integration for his shiny new $30k speakers but, to me, this is where actives fall over themselves. Not even the LS60, which is a lifestyle product with the most features and inputs available in this segment, cannot be configured to use a set volume on the...

Is it usable for HT? Does it have a fixed volume mode, so it can be controlled by the AVR? The speakers look great (sans the ugly D&D stands) but really limited in terms of connectivity.