Se Munro Egg 150

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For a while I have been intrigued by those speakers. The theory behind them sounds quite good.

http://www.seelectronics.com/se-munro-egg-150

Here are some reviews:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan12/articles/seegg150.htm

http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/tech/se-munro-egg-150-monitors-547702/

and a technical interview with the designer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEhu6dY0ulc

Another thing I like is the very high SO acceptance factor (probably best thing this side of a Bose or HK system)

What do you guys think, another seemingly cool system that is more marketing and design or are they worth it.

At this price point there are some nice Focal/Genelec/Dynaudio alternatives
 
They look like they are probably good speakers but for the price they'd damn well better be. As you noted, a lot of stiff competition at (and below) that price.

The monitor design that interests me more in Presonus' Scepter monitors. Coaxial speakers have always been a neat idea with regards to time/phase alignment but various problems have plagued them. In theory, throwing DSP at them should solve it. I want to hear some myself and see how they are.

Emotiva's Stealth monitors also look interesting. Fairly standard design, but looks well executed.
 
Indeed I could justify the price of those munro's only if they are truly something special and well above the pack (at that price range)

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Just earlier i was looking at those coax Presonus Sceptre S8 ... very interesting design ... using a DSP to "correct" the sound

but as a reviewer mentioned it's weird they don't offer a digital in ... so you have digital > DAC > digital again for the DSP > then a DAC again for analog

btw even M-audio offers a coax design in their new 3 ways (i wonder if it's well done at such a low price though)

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The emotiva's look sweet with plenty of amp power (maybe even overkill IMO - 200W for tweeter?) ... they do seem directly aimed at the Adam A-series
 
In theory a good DSP design can do just that. The interactions of the driver and horn and so on are very well defined (provided they are all built to the same spec) and thus you can write a FIR filter to counteract that. Fulcrum has been doing that for some time in more expensive speakers (Fulcrum designed the Sceptres for Presonus).

The digital in thing really isn't a big deal. A->D->A conversion adds very little noise and is inaudible with good componentry.
 
From what I read you are correct, the DSP method works quite well on the Presonus

You are also probably right that the ADA conversion does not affect the sound too much but to me it seems like a missed opportunity. Why not just put the DAC and DSP portion in an external box and throw some digital inputs on it ... this way you would not need an extra DAC
 
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