Is there any Future for high-end PASSIVE multi-way

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I'm less of a note follower and more of a timbre follower - more on the field recording side of enjoying sound than the sing-a-long-a-Max tune type person. I think that's where the low noise floor of good in-ear monitors and immediate plumbing of that sound into your ear comes in and beats speakers for me - more detail of the texture and inner components of a sound.
 
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NATDBERG said:
Most recordings are not made with a spaced stereo pair so reproducing any other recorded sound on spaced stereo speakers is a kind of arbitrary construct. Close micing is the norm or no mic at all - DI'd. Then you construct the stereo image as you want in the studio/computer.
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True, it depends largely on how the recording is constructed
So when listening and wanting high fidelity, you should really expect to be hearing instruments as if your ear is up close where the microphone was placed. That often is slightly wierd when the sound is coming from speakers .
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I think that would always be weird but hopefully corrected in the mix
When you're producing something, although you may make many judgements on a spaced stereo pair of monitors, engineers check the final mix on all sorts of set-ups including headphones. In fact there are many producers/engineers who will use headphones as monitors for the final mix precisely because that is likely how it will be listened to today. I would hazzard a guess that mixing for headphone listening may well be either the norm these days or at least extremely common.
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I hadn't considered that, could be true, but taken to it's logical conclusion they should use little in ear buds, maybe they do....
I should stress that I don't listen to classical, where spaced microphones are more common but even then you get mics over certain orchestra sections and mixed in.
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That explains a lot 😉 Little acoustic jazz either I'm guessing 😎
 
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With the affordability of watts these days - and provided complex impedance reactivity is with the subject amplifiers' comfort zone - the "net sensitivity / efficiency" could be less important than the X-max of whichever driver is the weakest link in that regard.
 
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Does a future made from all-active speakers free driver manufacturers from some of their constraints and allow them to design and offer even better drivers ? For example, active driving by modern (read: capable) amplifiers means no worries about weird impedance curves, driver sensitivity mismatches etc. If this allowed for better drivers that would be interesting. And with DSPs in the mix there would be even more freedom for the driver manufacturers. What might be possible ???
 
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