Using Devialet's active cross-over

[amabrok]

Ironically it seems the way forward for selling active crossovers to the public is to market active speakers as lifestyle products. No clumsy great amps, no speaker cables trailing across your living room: just a digital source communicating via one cable (or even wirelessly) with the little amp/DAC packs inside your nice slim speakers.

As far as SQ is concerned, whilst I agree that passive crossovers are a bad thing, for my money they don’t rank in the top three bottlenecks in speaker design. For me the top three SQ bottlenecks are: 1. cabinets, with their boxy, resonant character; 2. electrodynamic drivers and their problems with inertia; 3. using any crossover at all, active or passive (full range, please!).

Matt

hence the brilliance of the ML Montis