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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 34588" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: D-Fend</p><p></p><p>I will ASSume they have nailed the mechanics of how to reduce the power, but there is a lot of room for the exactly when with attack/release/even nonlinear threshold responses to just protect the drivers from failure or avoid power compression...etc. </p><p></p><p>They would be wise to give speaker manufacturers as much flexibility as they ask for and listen to them carefully because people have been dealing with doing this for decades, albeit higher upstream (of course Eminence has probably been party to this discussion all along). </p><p></p><p>This technology has the potential to really kick ass, if they sense or detect thermal status of the driver, but the cost of doing this as a separate function, vs integrating into a "system" remains the open question. </p><p></p><p>In my crystal ball future full of powered speakers this can probably be done cheaper elsewhere. Of course there is another vision of the future with one of these mounted to every driver... </p><p></p><p>not my vision unfortunately, but the future hasn't happened yet, so I can't know. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 34588, member: 126"] Re: D-Fend I will ASSume they have nailed the mechanics of how to reduce the power, but there is a lot of room for the exactly when with attack/release/even nonlinear threshold responses to just protect the drivers from failure or avoid power compression...etc. They would be wise to give speaker manufacturers as much flexibility as they ask for and listen to them carefully because people have been dealing with doing this for decades, albeit higher upstream (of course Eminence has probably been party to this discussion all along). This technology has the potential to really kick ass, if they sense or detect thermal status of the driver, but the cost of doing this as a separate function, vs integrating into a "system" remains the open question. In my crystal ball future full of powered speakers this can probably be done cheaper elsewhere. Of course there is another vision of the future with one of these mounted to every driver... not my vision unfortunately, but the future hasn't happened yet, so I can't know. JR [/QUOTE]
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