Apart from the obvious, are there any offer solutions out there?
The requirements:
-Active speakers.
-Digital inputs, and maybe an analogue one too.
-Remote control for volume and input selection.
-Domestically acceptable
I really can't think of any.
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I really haven't seen any
I really haven't seen any matching the exact description. Built-in DAC is a big separator.
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Active speakers with DAC and remote controlled pre amp
there´s lots of stuff in the professional audio range. like:
http://www.dynaudioacoustics.com/Default.asp?Id=321&AjrNws=317&AjrNwsPg=...
http://www.sennheiser.com/klein-hummel/icm_en.nsf/root/prof-monitoring_s...
http://www.sennheiser.com/klein-hummel/icm_en.nsf/root/prof-monitoring_s...
http://www.sennheiser.com/klein-hummel/icm_en.nsf/root/prof-monitoring_s...
all with highend-digital input and fully remotecontrollable.
"Q 16...24-Bit, 20...216 kHz digital input stage (DIM 1) for AES3, AES 3id and S/P-DIF signals
Q Electronics can be remotely accessed when the cabinet is flush mounted (REK 1 and CP 2, CP 5, CP 10, CP 15, CP 20, CP 25, or CP 30)"
Familiar products come from others too.
best, Klaus
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I'd say Modwright
I'd say Modwright Transporter and Adam S3A Studio monitors. The end. Oh and you can plug an Adam sub into the mix too. Would give ADM9.1 a run for their money. May blow the budget a little.
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ADM9.1s also have an extremely powerful Sub
I realise I'm biased but I know what I'd put my money on!
Ash
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Modwright
I looked up the Modwright Transporter and see that it a Transporter with a couple of lightbulbs poking out of the top.
Therefore, have they made it worse by increasing distortion?
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Mr AVI
Ashley,
Do you use ADM9 yourself?
What other 'speakers have you owned and used at home?
I read somewhere that you've replaced B&W801 and some Quads?
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Ashley's Loudspeakers
My first was an 18" BTH from a Cinema near Hampton Court, I bought it to go with a valve amplifier I'd built, then I teamed up with a Service Engineer for RCA Gt. Britain whose job was to repair Amplifiers and loudspeaker systems in Cinemas. I learnt a great deal and we founded a hi fi company that was an immediate success. I was 13 and still at schools and my parents that I should get a proper job! That was the late fifties.
Since that time I'd had a fascination with audio and I slowly worked my way through all the Quad speakers and amplifiers (7 pairs of ESLs and 5 pairs of ESL63s) various B&Ws, a Voight Corner Horn, some Tannoys, even Heathkit speakers, various Kefs, Rogers LS3/5As and LS5/8As, even 801 Matrix IIIs and of course the entire ATC range including having 300's in my sitting room for a time!
Currently I have what for me is the most exciting development in audio of my lifetime that I've been involved in.
I have two pairs of ADM9.1s and matching Subs, Apple TV and AE as sources, I have Neutron 5s and I've kept a pair of Rosewood Neutrons 4s because, although they've been surpassed now, they were our most successful and biggest selling product. Small classical record labels, broadcasters, scoring mixers, studios and thousands of hi fi enthusiasts bought them and they were tiny and pretty as well as punching way above their weight. In big rooms big speakers have advantages but I love small speakers and all they can do, especially as we can now seamlessly integrate very powerful subs and use very high powered amps that are cost effective. ADM9.1s are already selling faster but the little Neutrons have been around since '94.
I apologise for the advertorial and pray that the enthusiasm wins through.
Ash
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Er, tubes are smoother
Hi Darren
the tubes placed at output stage and modifications made to power supply and rectifier of the Modwright Transporter create the closest sound to analogue I've ever heard... which I know sounds like a contradiction, but hey, you should have a listen.
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Analogue
Tony,
Everything we hear is analogue! ;)
Instead of adding light bulbs couldn't iTunes equaliser be used to colour the sound?
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Analog colorations
darrenwm,
Do you really want to color the sound ?
I live about two miles from one of the best concert halls in the world. To see and hear Sir Simon Rattle conducting a world famous symphony orchestra is a great experience and a privilege.
Are you suggesting it should be 'altered' by some inadequate electronics which happen to be preferred by some 'uneducated' philistinic audiophile (in the audio sense) whose defective judgement and misplaced ideology leads him to think he can do better and achieve something that "he prefers".
That concept is ridiculous. YNWOAN, I hope you too are reading this.