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There is an owners thread running on AVForums for Pro Audio Technology and Theory Audio Design, and it is a reminder that this corner of home cinema barely comes up here. Pro was started by Paul Hales around 2005. Horns, ring radiator tweeters, premium drivers, no furniture-grade cabinets, and every speaker paired with its own matching amplifier, bi-amped on most of the range and tri-amped further up. Screening room gear that happened to end up in houses.
Theory arrived later with the same DNA and a far smaller catalogue. One main speaker, the sb25, a compression driver with two 6.5-inch bass drivers, in-wall or on-wall, plus a bar enclosure that packs three sb25s to cover LCR. Two in-ceilings and a run of subs and that is more or less the range.
The interesting part is not the drivers, it is that the amplifier stops being your decision. Buy in and the crossover, the amp channels and the limiting are all set by the manufacturer for that specific cabinet. You give up the entire hobby of matching amps to speakers and in return you stop being the weak link. For a dedicated room that needs output without distortion at reference level, that is a sane trade. In a lounge it is a harder sell, because horn dispersion is designed to cover rows of seats at a distance and a short throw does not give it room to settle.
The OP has been running Pro since 2013 and owns enough boxes for 11.2.8, planning to land on 9.x.8. Not exactly a typical data point.
Has anyone here heard an sb25 bar up against a normal passive LCR in the same room?
Theory arrived later with the same DNA and a far smaller catalogue. One main speaker, the sb25, a compression driver with two 6.5-inch bass drivers, in-wall or on-wall, plus a bar enclosure that packs three sb25s to cover LCR. Two in-ceilings and a run of subs and that is more or less the range.
The interesting part is not the drivers, it is that the amplifier stops being your decision. Buy in and the crossover, the amp channels and the limiting are all set by the manufacturer for that specific cabinet. You give up the entire hobby of matching amps to speakers and in return you stop being the weak link. For a dedicated room that needs output without distortion at reference level, that is a sane trade. In a lounge it is a harder sell, because horn dispersion is designed to cover rows of seats at a distance and a short throw does not give it room to settle.
The OP has been running Pro since 2013 and owns enough boxes for 11.2.8, planning to land on 9.x.8. Not exactly a typical data point.
Has anyone here heard an sb25 bar up against a normal passive LCR in the same room?
