I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ...

I don't understand why you need a speaker manufacturer to build an active speaker, when you can make a lot of speakers active with an active crossover and your choice of amps. 

Studio professional *know* sound, both live and reproduced,


They might know sound but they also gave us the loudness wars. I think a lot of recording engineer's try to change the sound and call it art. I have heard recordings from the 50's that sound better than a lot of the recordings made today, why is that?