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I liked it!
Analogous to the unpackaging, and ritual of opening a fresh pack of cigarettes, or meticulously making an at-home cocktail with all the right glassware.
But sometimes this hobby is more than just the sound.
Just like an ICE powered stick shift is more charming than a Tesla.
Cheers!
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Bunch of biased information, if you ask me.
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Both can be ābestā. But definitely agree dropping the needle on a turntable with the album cover placed in view, mixing and matching components, and the pursuit of finding the right capacitor (subjective as it may be) in our builds is āthe funā.
I will always prefer a stick in a sports car for the driving experience, although the paddles may be quicker.
The best cigar I ever had was at an event where they were being hand rolled. Something about the experienceā¦
Pardon the rant - I use AI for voice-overs at least twice a week, but Iām sick of this type of AI generated video. Automated using prompts to scrub the internet, filled with mispronounced names and unrelated and/or misleading photos. Nobody who understands the subject matter is proofing these. Most of them are not put together by people who give two sh!ts about accuracy - they just want to make a quick $.
BTW - despite my best efforts, I could not get AI to correctly pronounce āPodiatristā. I had to have a real live person do that voice-over.
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Having exited a career mining and analyzing data while trying to make sense of it I have decided that AI as we know it has a LOOOOooong way to go unless managed by professionals in a specific/existing technology field.
Concerning the subject matter - I now think that those designing/making/listening to speakers with passive XOās/ & single stereo amps are the ālittle girlsāā rather than the ābig girlsā crooned about by the Doors in āBack Door Manā.
YMMV.
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Agreed on the AI crap. However I think Iām going to jump into the powered speakers gig for my next project using the Hypex FA253 DSP 3 channel amp. Parts Express is now selling at significantly less than Madisound did and they have a 15% Memorial Day sale this weekend. 
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Go double-check Madiās prices - they look lower to me . . .
PE 549.78
Mad 639.00
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Damn - I was looking at the FA123 from Madi ā> Hypex-FA123
_ VS _
FA253 from PE ā> Hypex Direct FusionAmp FA253 Mono 3-Way Plate Amplifier 500W + 100W
MY bad.
I said what Madisound prices were. They have dropped their prices (which I always thought were way over inflated) since PE started carrying them but with the 15% discount itās still not close.
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Purchased a pair!
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Bahzamm! Thatās pricey in my world.
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lmfao Im not a little girl, you silly shit.
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Itās a really odd reference, especially since Willie Dixon never wrote any big legged women into that ditty.
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Agreed, itās not cheap. But itās not much more than the Helix car DSP I was looking at that has no amplifiers and I would have to deal with all the rca cables running from it to the amps and then the drivers.
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Iāve just made the decision and ordered the parts to try going active on my next build. I have a really nice old BSS SoundWeb DSP box from my pro-sound days, but itās a pain to work with on the programming side. This will be a bit of an experiment with some dirt cheap amp boards (TPA3255 & TPA3116D2) and an ADAU1401 DSP board. It may all go up in flames, but itāll be an interesting learning experience.
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There was a version of the lyrics going around back in the 70ās that went; āThe big girls KNOW what the little girls UNDERSTAND - Iām your back door manā.
Imagine how the songsā meaning changed for me after discovering the original lyrics . . .
They said ā4 way speakers is the place you wanna be, so they put aside the passive stuff and went with DSPā.
3 way with a sub that iz, XOād at 80 Hz.
Linear phase.
Yaāll come back now . . . .
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The video seems fair enough if you watch it to the end. Though it seems to miss the point on the recording studios using active speakers.. Studio engineers need a locked-in guaranteed repeatable response. Enthusiasts have different goals. But the average consumer-grade listener realy doesnāt care about any of that. So I do agree that powered speakers will become prominent. They pretty much already have if you include bluetooth speakers.
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