Powered Speakers Suck (because of class D)

[wgscott]

18 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 Social Queues, or Social Cues ?

 

Whoops.

 

 

[fas42]

A social queue ...

 

 

[Fluffytime]

Powdered Tweakers Duck (because of morass twee)

[jabbr]

11 hours ago, fas42 said:

A social queue ...

 

 

 

Your best post ever!!! ???

[kumakuma]

15 hours ago, Fluffytime said:

 

GUTB, you are just adorable.

 

That isn't how you spell azzhole.

[AudioDoctor]

13 hours ago, kumakuma said:

 

That isn't how you spell azzhole.

 

I nearly spit beer all over my computer!

[Brewie]

There is some good and neutral Information around active vs passive speakers from Hans Beekhuyzen. I generally like his way of analyzing hifi topics in a more scientific way.

 

 

[mansr]

3 minutes ago, Brewie said:

There is some good and neutral Information around active vs passive speakers from Hans Beekhuyzen. I generally like his way of analyzing hifi topics in a more scientific way.

Please tell me that's a joke.

[firedog]

59 minutes ago, Brewie said:

There is some good and neutral Information around active vs passive speakers from Hans Beekhuyzen. I generally like his way of analyzing hifi topics in a more scientific way.

 

 

Scientific? Really? I suggest you look up the word so you know what it means before you use it the next time.

[wgscott]

8 hours ago, mansr said:

Please tell me that's a joke.

 

He has a conceptually rigorous accent and an oscilloscope behind his shoulder. What more do you want?

[firedog]

42 minutes ago, wgscott said:

 

He has a German accent and an oscilloscope behind his shoulder. What more do you want?

I think "Germanic" might be more appropriate if you are going there. Isn't he Dutch?

[Brewie]

He is dutch and yes you are probably right that „scientific“ is the wrong wording. This review an his other reviews are easy to understand and explain complex hifi topics in an let’s say „intelligent“ way.

[mansr]

11 minutes ago, Brewie said:

He is dutch and yes you are probably right that „scientific“ is the wrong wording. This review an his other reviews are easy to understand and explain complex hifi topics in an let’s say „intelligent“ way.

Easy to understand, perhaps, but also utterly wrong.

[wgscott]

55 minutes ago, firedog said:

I think "Germanic" might be more appropriate if you are going there. Isn't he Dutch?

 

Ooops.  Well, he ain't no 'mericun.  You can tell by the absence of a MAGA hat.

 

(Besides, isn't English a Germanic language?)

[firedog]

2 minutes ago, wgscott said:

 

Ooops.  Well, he ain't no 'mericun.  You can tell by the absence of a MAGA hat.

 

(Besides, isn't English a Germanic language?)

It was a bad choice of words in the first place. I was just trying to be nice by suggesting "Germanic". English is a Germanic language, but it's sort of a distant cousin and the accent certainly isn't Germanic. (Think how many English speakers have trouble with gutturals as in "Bach").  Dutch and German accents aren't  the same, but you  could classify the Dutch accent as Germanic, since Dutch is most definitely a Germanic language.

[Ralf11]

maybe English began as a Germanic language, but the Normans modified it quite a bit; and then...

 

I recommend The Story of English by Robt. McCrum

 

(which I read on a Wyoming sheep ranch while exiled there with 2 pure mathematicians...)

[mansr]

39 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

maybe English began as a Germanic language, but the Normans modified it quite a bit; and then...

Old English came from Saxon in the 6th century. Since then it has changed considerably, both through external influence (e.g. Norman) and by gradual mutation.

[fas42]

10 hours ago, Brewie said:

There is some good and neutral Information around active vs passive speakers from Hans Beekhuyzen. I generally like his way of analyzing hifi topics in a more scientific way.

 

 

 

Logical would be a good word to use. Unlike some who want to be smartarses, I see good value in what's here: in the real world amplifiers are helped a great deal by having loads which are better behaved; and crossover parts which only have to handle low currents will intrinsically perform better.

 

Active speakers win because they're a smarter way of getting the speaker drivers to do the work - but fail because they remove the "fiddling" aspect of having a rig ... .

[Rt66indierock]

12 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

Logical would be a good word to use. Unlike some who want to be smartarses, I see good value in what's here: in the real world amplifiers are helped a great deal by having loads which are better behaved; and crossover parts which only have to handle low currents will intrinsically perform better.

 

Active speakers win because they're a smarter way of getting the speaker drivers to do the work - but fail because they remove the "fiddling" aspect of having a rig ... .

 

Hans is one of the reasons for the saying "shoot the messenger."

[AudioDoctor]

@GUTB you keep this up and I am going to go buy some class D amps out of spite.

[fas42]

A "bearer of bad news"? ... well, plenty of systems using passive speakers is mighty bad news, if listening pleasure is meant to be the message ...

[aaa]

GUTB,

 

Are you deliberately trying to be provocative? 

 

I have heard two B&O speakers with iCEpower amps and could happily live with either: Beolab 5 and Beolab 80.

 

What exactly Is the matter with  iCEpower amps?