Gryphon Audio Designs • Trident Loudspeakers
Semi-active speakers that excel at "bringing the performance home."
artially active speakers, once so rare, are becoming increasingly common, not least because the formula offers (and often delivers) very real benefits. Installing amplifiers to drive the bass leg in a three-way design promises to increase low-frequency extension from a given cabinet, improve bass control by direct-coupling the driving amp to the drivers, and create the possibility for low-frequency adjustment and room compensation. In addition, there are fringe benefits to be enjoyed by the system’s main amplifier, which has a far easier time of it, now that it doesn’t have to answer the demands imposed by heavy low-frequency transients. So, it should be a win-win situation, from both the designer's and owner’s point of view, right? You’d think so, but in audio, nothing is quite what it seems, and even surefire success strategies can easily be undermined by poor execution -- or misapplication.
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