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Have the passive 4s. Pretty good. They are very pretty in matte black without the grills. I think they might be a little much for desktop use. They are proper little speakers but they have a sound that leans forward and I do get some kind of resonance or droning on certain notes. Could be something in my environment- they are over my desk- but I don’t remember anything similar with my BS22s. But the BS were way way too large for near field.
YT appear to be listing all the topics I have on my mind at moment and from a source such as yourself whom I respect. Sorry if my replies go off at a slight tangent. Speaker cables, this can be a money pit if you put your faith 'so-called' experts. I love the sound of vintage kit (including BOSE speakers 😂) and have no need to change, the amps do come with the design limitations of the day. L-Centre-R, ML and MR have connectors suitable for banana plug or bare wire(tinned) QED 79 strand. However the rear connections RL - Rear Centre - RR are too small for banana and will only accept 0.5mm. 2 RCA sub outs
Audiophile Ethernet cables do not improve the audio signal in any way. This is simply because they carry a digital signal and the tcp/ip stack performs check summing and error corrections. In other words, what you put in is exactly what comes out.
Not sure if it wasn't mentioned somewhere in comments, but there is indeed no streaming service which allows lossless (TrueHD) Dolby Atmos, but there is a streaming device which allows HDMI passthrough and thus TrueHD Dolby Atmos - the Nvidia Shield TV Pro PS: VERY much appreciate the tip, for so long I've apparently been using Apple Music blissfully unaware that this is not the lossless audio I was hoping for !
I tri-wired mine, now they sound 3 times better!!! 😃. To make people understand the futility of that debate let me make up an example. Let say that you go for a Walk, from your home to the groceries-store. You have pants on (well today at least 😂). You have the choice to cut those pants under your knees and the result will be when you enter the store. You can choose to cut them when you leave your home or 1mn before your enter the store. One way or another you will enter the store with shorter pants 😂. That to say that if your cables are connected at one point /end (we re talking one side r or l) behind your amp or behind your speaker with a bridge it will be at the end the exact same thing, your 2cables will work at one which is pointless. Bi-wiring only make sense if you re using at least 2 amps (if your speakers are 2-ways) with one amp for the tweeters and one amp for the bass-elements, of course without any jumper behind the speakers and preferably bypassing any filter in the speakers and if possible filtering those frequencies in between the sound-source and the amps…if at any point after amplification there is a contact in between the frequencies the all thing will make no difference except the fact that you re augmenting the cross-section of the cable on each side which means less resistance etc… to make things even. More meaningful the recording itself would have be made that way from the start to be used with 2 or 4 amps (let’s dream😂). Many studio-active speakers actually have separate amps for each drivers built in in the speakers (which is approaching more or less the principle of using several amps in between the source and the speakers. Some of those sound for the same reason better than more expensive audiophile speakers for a fraction of the price. To resume it all a normally wired excellent amp together with excellent speakers connected with good cables will sound better any day than medium-class speakers that are quadruple wired😂…the common bi-wiring will not make any difference in your amp nor in your speakers. That mental debate has gone for ages and is absurd. Take a piece of paper and draw a schematic of your wiring and it will be obvious. The rest is selling argument only, I m surprised that they don’t pretend that using 10 cables on each side in between amp and speakers would make your speakers sound better, which would be btw the exact same thing than what people are commonly referring to when they say “ bi-wiring”… at least it gives people something to talk about and it makes the industry richer 😄. There is no way to make your amp or speakers sound any better by mutiplicating the number of cables on each output of your amp, that is pure logic and not rocket science. Well at least that debate do not kill nor arm anybody 🥳🤓
I was about to sell my soul to the local godfather for a loan so i can get a pair of $100000 speaker wires from audioquest. After that i will also buy a blank canvas painting for a million dollars, then i will send the remainder of whatever i have to Keith Copeland.
It was because of this review that pushed me over into buying the Monoliths and wow what a huge improvement to my ears over the Klipsch RP's. Non fatiguing, well rounded and sound with depth; the center anchors vocals beautifully to the screen with fantastic horizontal dispersion.
