I've wanted to get into Hi-Fi audio for some time now, but whenever I tried to find some decent source of information I would just end up finding snake oil, affiliate links and subjective opinions (I guess that is what internet is nowadays). That is until I found this wonderful website. At the moment I don't own any relevant hardware. I want to get a pair of bookshelf speakers along with a subwoofer for nearfield listening ($2000-2500 budget) and have a couple of noob questions.
I want to get passive speakers, as intuitively they should have better longevity. Since this is where I plan to spend most of the money I want to decouple them from other components like amplifier and technology like bluetooth that will break/become obsolete sooner and need replacement. Does that make sense?
Is there a subwoofer that could also act as an amplifier for passive speakers? I could find none. It seems a little bit weird - since a sub has to have a powerful amp why not lend some of that power to the speakers?
Is it okay if I just plug the amp to my PC (skip DAC)? More specifically it would probably be [motherboard line out -> sub line in, sub line out -> amp line in].
And lastly - is preference score measured for subs or just the CEA-2010-A?
Thank you everyone for this awesome forum.
I want to get passive speakers, as intuitively they should have better longevity. Since this is where I plan to spend most of the money I want to decouple them from other components like amplifier and technology like bluetooth that will break/become obsolete sooner and need replacement. Does that make sense?
Is there a subwoofer that could also act as an amplifier for passive speakers? I could find none. It seems a little bit weird - since a sub has to have a powerful amp why not lend some of that power to the speakers?
Is it okay if I just plug the amp to my PC (skip DAC)? More specifically it would probably be [motherboard line out -> sub line in, sub line out -> amp line in].
And lastly - is preference score measured for subs or just the CEA-2010-A?
Thank you everyone for this awesome forum.