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RE: Tom Martin fires a shot across the bow of his own magazine.

Posted by hahax@verizon.net on March 18, 2020 at 20:42:56:
It will be interesting to see if anything comes of the Eikon. There have often been very good audio speakers like ATC with active crossovers and built in amps that don't have room equalization like the Eikon but have merely a small following even though they are excellent speaker systems. Amplifiers are way happier when they don't have to drive passive crossovers which are often lousy loads.

By the way the last speaker that Gordon Holt purchased for himself was a powered ATC50A. He considered it one of the few systems that could approach a sense of live sound.

The use of digital active crossovers should make their design simpler. And it would be simple to add environmental equalization to them. Plus the latest high bit, high sampling DACs can exhibit superb sound.

I'm a fan but after decades of the failure of active speaker systems to make a dent in home audio(although they are prolific in pro monitoring) I'm not optimistic.