Hi All,
I've been requested to help a fellow "audiophile" build an active speaker. I've built numerous speakers over the years, but they were all passive.
My buddy has insisted to go the active route. To get started, we have a miniDSP-HD on hand.
We've read through the various reviews here on the active speakers (e.g., Genelec, Neumann KH150, Mesanovic CDM 65, Buchardt A700 etc.)
Many of these have received outstanding reviews.
Our question is, how good are the internal DACs on these DSP-based monitors? The reason for the question is that we were going to begin this project with the MiniDSP-HD. The review of the internal DAC in the miniDSP on this website would lead one to believe it should not be used for anything other than bass management.
There are also a bunch of other poorly reviewed DACs on this website; however, there are several positively reviewed DSP-based active monitor.
One would imagine that speakers with outstanding reviews will correspondingly employ outstanding DACs.
Is that true? Would most fellow forum members here caution against using the miniDSP-HD?
I've been requested to help a fellow "audiophile" build an active speaker. I've built numerous speakers over the years, but they were all passive.
My buddy has insisted to go the active route. To get started, we have a miniDSP-HD on hand.
We've read through the various reviews here on the active speakers (e.g., Genelec, Neumann KH150, Mesanovic CDM 65, Buchardt A700 etc.)
Many of these have received outstanding reviews.
Our question is, how good are the internal DACs on these DSP-based monitors? The reason for the question is that we were going to begin this project with the MiniDSP-HD. The review of the internal DAC in the miniDSP on this website would lead one to believe it should not be used for anything other than bass management.
There are also a bunch of other poorly reviewed DACs on this website; however, there are several positively reviewed DSP-based active monitor.
One would imagine that speakers with outstanding reviews will correspondingly employ outstanding DACs.
Is that true? Would most fellow forum members here caution against using the miniDSP-HD?