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Looking for cheap active speakers with user programmable DSP

wus

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I like to hear music while cooking. I have a Yamaha Pianocraft receiver in the kitchen. With the small (passive) speakers placed in the room corners, I could help their weak bass reproduction a bit. Until a while ago, I was satisfied with the sound that they create.

However, "a while ago" I bought a pair of JBL LSR 305P MkII for my computer. I precisely adjusted them to my listening position in front of the computer using REW and EQ APO, as described here (if you speak German :) - but diagrams and pictures speak for themselves). Since I did that, the shortcomings of the speakers in the kitchen are becoming more and more audible to me.

In the kitchen I don't have a computer, so in order to EQ out the speaker's and the room's sound colorations I'd like to have active speakers with built-in DSPs that are freely programmable. On hand of the JBLs I learned that rooms can require quite drastic EQing, as can be seen in the red-and-white diagram in my link.

I already searched the internet for this, but don't know how I should tell Google or other search engines the "built-in freely programmable DSP" requirements. The only one I found is the Neumann KH80 DSP which fits my requirement perfectly - also because its ports are front-firing -, but it is too expensive for me.

Is anyone of you in here aware of such speakers?
 

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Looks like its only a geq but maybe it fits your needs? Maybe not?
 
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Won't an issue be that you move around the kitchen a lot, rather than just wanting to optimise sound for a small sweet-spot?
 
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The Rokit 5 does it - almost :eek:
GEQ indeed won't do what I want
Unfortunately it is also a bit too tall to fit into my kitchen shelf

@Ultrasonic - I will make several measurements at my typical listening positions in the kitchen, probably will also try a couple slightly different speaker positions and / or orientations, then see if I can find a compromise EQ curve. Alternative would be to optimise the EQ for just one listening position and live with this limitation.

@headshake: I don't want additional devices in the kitchen. Space there is quite limited.
 

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@headshake: I don't want additional devices in the kitchen. Space there is quite limited.
Raspberry pi zero w + miniboss costs <50eur and is half the size of a cigarette box (even less I think), you could even glue it to the back of the speaker. It gives you a streamer and PEQ and camilla dsp for free with moodeaudio for instance. You would have one more cable for the power though.
 

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Diva kitchen speakers.

Specs:
5*5*5 inch
Full 8 channel peq.
30-20 khz - 0.5 db
119 dB max. 1m thd < 1%
99 US$

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