I'd like to see all of my powered towers with fire wire ports on the back of 'em. A little dial on each one with, say, 16 numbered positions. Run all of them into a hub somewhere, then into your processor (or better yet, run each to a wall plate that goes into your whole-house 1394 system). Go into your processor's config screen and indicate what the "address" of each speaker is at each position, L, R, C, LS, etc.

Each speaker also needs power, and has its digital amp & drivers all in the same box. Awesome!

Of course, the only thing that will prevent this (and probably will succeed) is RIAA paranoia & greed.

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Matthew J. Hill
matt@idsi.net