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Here we have Sir Andrew Jones ( of ELAC ) revealing the low cost of Amplification directing the design-decisions in favor of inefficient Loudspeakers. ( hard not to agree with him )
and then;
here comes Zu's "Old School" efficient design proponent offering 97db/watt single driver stuff to the "twitchy" Audiophile group of low power aficionados ( QRP in Ham Radio terminology ).
I've been an active proponent of both philosophies, both work quite well but not as well as Active Loudspeakers......especially if we consider the source quality to be the determining factor in musical happiness!
Andrew Jones is leaning his designs to Active, Zu is not going Active, Meridian, Genelec, DynAudio, Focal and scads more outfits make superb Active Loudspeakers.
I suspect that 5 years from now we all will be using Wifi Active music systems playing music from Tidal & MQA. ( all except the few remaining Grey-Beard, Analog Planet people, anchored in 1979 ).
2K 24P video is also the future.
We've come a looooooooong way and the HFN&RR formula is still great!
Tony in Michigan