After just glancing at all the new posts in here,
Group Build must be heating up.

It looks to me a bit like things I've seen in Linux
developement with lots of cooks and who knows how much
broth.

Anyway.

Way back when the reason I started on the speakerbuilding
hobby was to make the most effective sound for monitoring
and creating digitized sound files from older media.

But the thing that never gets answered-- at least satidfactorily
for me-- is how to plug directly from souncard to speaks. It
would be the ability to yank out those little desktop jobs and
plug in some good ones for listening in the near field.

The belies (?) the idea that you would hook up a standard
amp or receiver to get the needed power for standard audio
equipment (even high efficiency, but that might be another
angle.

The snazziest desktop stuff I've seen was from Swan's.
Way too expensive and still does not solve the plug (into
the soundcard) and play issue.

I always thought the problem could be solved by
powered speakers using gainclones so my question in
this Group Build forum is how to make a product to
solve this dilemma.

Other thing that just occurred to me was some sort
of breakout box like the Creative labs Audigy or the older
Hercules 'theater' box. But the idea was plug and play
direct.

The speaks would be at ear height rather than slanted
as well. I'm using a pair like that now but they are not
plug and play and the driver should be improved to a
4 incher. Perhaps a micro version of a MLTL (Mass Loaded
Transmission Line) whose design is wider than it is deep--
like the EJ Jordan company design for the Jordan 92s.