User talk:Hddaudio

Active?
This addition you made to the powered speakers article is not correct. External amplifiers combined with active crossovers do not make for active speakers. Rather, the resulting sound system may be called an active sound system because of the crossover configuration, but the loudspeakers are still passive, holding no electronics beyond voice coils. Binksternet (talk) 17:14, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello Binksternet. :-D

Sorry for the misunderstanding about active speakers. The changes that were made to the Powered Speakers page are a result of this forum thread here: http://hddaudio.net/viewtopic.php?id=4224 Please feel free to join hddaudio forums and contribute to this thread. We are a friendly and knowledgeable bunch of people. There are several active speaker experts there. One of them is called Ashley James and he has spent 50 years designing speakers for ATC and AVI hifi companies.

Regards, Steve


 * I'm not much for online discussion boards these days, so I am not likely to join HDDAudio. The discussion at your link looks vigorous, which is good. I might use some of the ideas from the discussion in the article about powered speakers.
 * Me, I have more than thirty years in pro audio event production, primarily audio system design and mixing. I worked at McCune 1988 to 1994 which is why I altered that bit about the McCune JM3 active system. Since about 2003, the majority of loudspeakers I encounter in my career are self-powered. It has been a giant shift, one that the article does not adequately describe. I think Meyer has had a very large influence... he basically owned the live sound market in self-powered speakers from 1994 to 1999, and catalyzed a bunch of other companies to produce competing models.
 * Regarding active loudspeakers for high-end home use, I have no experience. I hope I have represented that market accurately.
 * Regarding your username, it is now apparent that your name is the same as your organization. Such naming practice is not allowed on Wikipedia, according to the guideline at WP:CORPNAME. You will want to change your name to something else by following the directions found at Changing username. Sorry for the inconvenience! Binksternet (talk) 21:38, 15 November 2011 (UTC)