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Do Active Speakers Belong In A High End System?

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In a pair of active speakers, you have removed the high end amplifier from from the equation. The amps on an active speaker will probably be class D plate amps.

All of the flowery adjectives to describe high end amps and high end speaker cables in a system go right out the window when using active speakers.

Is a serious active full-range tower speaker a high-end audiophile possibility? I rarely read about active speakers on this forum in a two channel system.
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bhobba
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Why not?

Some of the best speakers around, and I have heard, are active.

That said the very best speakers I have heard are NOT active and the designers think a SOTA passive simply sounds better.

I am looking to arrange a GTG to put that to the test with a SOTA passive compared to a DEQX active.

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Bill
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bhobba
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Rrog wrote: 'Eliminating the passive crossover, installing an electronic crossover, matching amplifiers to drivers and bi-amping or tri-amping all add up to better sound.'

Sorry mate - comparisons to not always bear that out. I know people who have compared a DEQX to a SOTA passive and the passive blew it out of the water. I am trying to organize a GTG to repeat it but can say for certain it is NOT true active is better - not by a long shot.

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Bill
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bhobba
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Hi Bob

Yep - that's true. But it does time alignment and room correction which some say lifts it well above conventional active.

As with all thing audio opinions vary.

Thanks
Bill
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