New speakers SAM ready

[Jwg1749]

I am intrigued why you think it would be pointless. There is a crossover in the MLs between panel and bass unit
The fact that the bass is active is irrelevant. SAM can not be done when an owner is using his speakers with a separate subwoofer driven by the Devialet crossover and sub out, obviously, but since the ML bass section takes its input from the speaker leads there is no reason why SAM can't be done, even anti-damage mapping, as long as the integrated sub/amp characteristics are known.

Yes, perhaps I was being too categorical. But my reasoning is this. The DSP in the speakers already does (much of) what SAM does. For instance it corrects phase anomalies between the sub and the panel. And it has built-in damage protection.

For this reason my assumption had been that the DSP in the speaker would override the effects of SAM. I may be quite wrong about this.

I suspect the reason why the Montis haven't been put on the SAM-soon list yet, despite having crossed the voting threshold a couple of weeks ago -- and they're the only speaker so far to spend that long over the threshold without being SAM-ed -- is that Devialet believe it's not worth SAM-ing them. Again, I may be quite wrong about this.

Anyway, from a purely academic perspective it'd be interested to know the inside track on this. I may ping off an e-mail to Paris ...

Matt