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RE: Of course, there's hope!

Posted by mr.bear (A) on January 14, 2018 at 10:42:54

In Reply to: RE: Ping Jon Risch posted by Jaundiced Ear on January 14, 2018 at 03:34:35:

What you're suggesting has arisen from time to time in the past, for example at the fine HiFi manufacturer Meridian, who offered high-end active speakers with amplifiers and crossovers on-board as far back as the 80's. Like so many other hi-fi notions, this one seems to arise and then fade periodically. Why? I assume audiophiles in pursuit of sonic excellence and for purposes of self-amusement would much rather lie on the floor, skinning their knuckles, swapping individual component amplifiers, preamplifiers, interconnects, speaker cables, and so on and so on forever, rather than buy any "one box" device. I certainly would! It's one of my hobbies, honestly, and I want to participate.

All one-box solutions reflect some engineers/marketing-chumps/focus-group/sewing-circle's tastes... I recently confirmed that by hearing the most au-courant, very costly Meridian system at the LA audio show. It was not to my taste, indeed. Meridian are still hawking the same theme as 1980 but updated with DSP crossover and digital interconnection. Their amazing claim was NO BULKY SPEAKER WIRES! They connected the large, beautiful speakers via and Ethernet cable to some sort of music server. It could have (exactly equivalently) been via WiFi, I suppose. With all due respect to Meridian, the net effect was literally unlistenable-- it drove me from the room. Their glossy brochures all show their speakers with NO wires whatsoever... as if they had little cold fusion reactors inside powering them. "What BS!" Bear said, in an angry low growl!

Another such system down the line (in a quality sense...) that reflects your concern about wireless boxes are the Sonos products. These are a giant form of iPod -- really not meant for folks in this Asylum. They're meant for a market that just wants background noise to drown out barking dogs, or the voices inside their heads. The likelihood of seeing someone, anyone, sitting in the sweet-spot in front of a Sonos thingy to listen to a symphony is zero.

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