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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Papermaker85" data-source="post: 8500842" data-attributes="member: 572595">dsp is digital sound processor. which includes time alignment crossovers, EQs and other sound shaping i prefer not to use.active is technically when you use a crossover network BEFORE your amplifier. i often call it a digital crossover network becasue your not going to use passive in the same sense. frankly they both have benefits and flaws. both properly designed you wont hear a difference. i dont like to EQ anything if i dont have to and i ESP dont like to use any boost. only cut. ill cut every **** frequency to match before i boost. lol time alignment is great but you better make **** sure your phasing is very good originally with the x-over alignments etc otherwise your going to never get the perfect response. it will sound better imaging wise but other aspects suffer.. using a DSP with the built in crossovers can give you very high slopes and it is a-bit more efficient and you typically have slight better dampening over the drivers but there are the obvious issues with any digital alignment like latency and data corruption etc but a well designed system will sound amazing when you used a very good processor and a high quatitly waveform. people will swear they can hear the difference between 320kbps and wav/good flac but they are full of **** they have other issues in the hardware/software or flat out have ****** equipment.if you really want to make big improvements in your existing system i highly suggest starting with proper placement of the drivers giving the the proper airspace and giving them dampening and avoiding refraction and diffusion. getting hte proper phase between the drivers is a big key to having great sound stage and imaging. this makes its MUCH easier to really tweek and avoids any unnecessary sound enhancements which often add more coloration in the signal.another thing about DSP active is the amplifier amplifies EVERYTHING. so any distortion introduced by the DSP will be amplified with the original signal..im to lazy to write the down falls of  passive networks in which there are but ill leave that for you to research.<a href="http://www.woofersetc.com/c-164-processors/c-188-sound-processors/ps8-arc-audio-audiophile-digital-sound-processor.html" target="_blank">PS8 - Arc Audio Audiophile Digital Sound Processor</a><a href="http://www.woofersetc.com/c-164-processors/c-188-sound-processors/p-8488-bit-one-audison-signal-processor-for-amplifiers.html" target="_blank">Bit One - Audison Signal Processor for Amplifiers</a>these are definitely the best DSPs. your not going to get anything funky with them(granted you can tune) and the options are nearly endless..</blockquote>

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