That is unfortunate especially for those of us who are not interested in movies.
I think were is the operative word there
Do you have a source for this?
If the amps are built in-house, I'll be bowled over.
If the drivers are built in-house and not spec'd to Tymphany or similar to be produced off-shore, I'll be... moderately surprised.
Car companies do use parts from all over, they don't make everything themselves, there are many vendors involved. Plus, that isn't at all evidence that the synergy you talk about is at all audible, it is theoretical and I am not sure how it can be quantified in any truly objective way. That returns me again to my question, how is this theoretical synergistic advantage translated into audible improvement?
That doesn't mean anything will be audibly different. Theoretically, possibly even measurably different, but I am asking about evidence of audible benefit.
I’m not sure I follow. The fact that active designs have inherent “audible” advantages (as I mentioned) guarantees that they will sound better when all another factors are held constant. The fact that all other factors are never held constant does not negate that fact. The trends will show over time with a large enough sample.
Not sure about the amps, but pretty sure the drivers are in-house.
The term synergy is a awkward, quirky and vague term for audio equipment loaded with overtones of snake oil.
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Ignoring synergy(between amps, speakers, dacs, cables, etc.) is one of the 10 most common mistakes that new audiophiles make when getting into the hobby. At least that's what youtube tells me
You can't know that, it could just as easily turn out opposite. Holding things constant if one is at a lower level for instance is true, but that doesn't preclude the fact that something could still be better. I really don't think in a blind listening test, multiple trials, if you were reviewing a speaker that had been designed to be used both active and passive, if you heard it driven by it's internals, then they were defeated and equally good externals were used to drive it, I just don't think you would hear anything different. Why would you? The point has not been established that using internals will somehow provide audibly better results, it might in some comparisons and not in others.
Yes, this is related to use ACTIV speakers or not: I am running my NAD 2200 triplets tri-amped. The APT/Homan pre-amp runs into a Harrison labs Analog Parametric (PFMOD) that sends everything below 80 Hz to my pair of subs (running 800 watt RMS a channel (2 Ohms) stereo and the mains running bridged mono 1K watts @ 8 Ohms each. My room is L- shaped with a !/2 cathedral ceiling in the living room side (And a curved 96" bay window behind curtains like stages have), At the front of the listeng area is a 5 ft wide fire place starting 3 bricks high from the floor and sticking 2 bricks deep into the room. At 5 ft up is a 5 ft wide, 4" thick, 6" deep mantle sticking into the room. There is a 1/2 room width wall at the back that the length of which connects at the cathedral ceiling , the other side of which (further back) has 3 steps going down to the left (behind the 1/2 wall). 3 feet even further back is a full staircase going upwards to a platform 2 more steps further back and an inset door. To the front right the ceiling drops from 16 feet to 8 feet and the foot of the L is the dining room with a Chandelier (further breaks up any remaining standing waves). While I have not measured the room response, I am pretty sure that there are very few (if any) bass nulls in this room. Moving around on this area the things I detect with my ears are differences that relate to being off-axis with frequencies above say 300 Hz. (I have received my Behringer DEQ2496 back & will be doing some measuring and EQing in the next 6 months). But if I removed my Preamps, amps, passive speakers and subs and went with ACTIVE speakers, even with the 96" couch, a 3/4 floor rug, some paintings and carvings by artistic relatives, I would have to buy some stuff to put into the room to keep it from looking sterile. So aesthetics is another reason to not use ACTIVE speakers. On the other hand, in smaller rooms, they may be a Godsend. It happens that the house that I live in, that my parents designed and built themselves (with the help of friends) in 1964, has 2 separate attics. There are no 'small' rooms in this house that I inherited.
