I worked with active speakers i owned for 10 years...
I bought them 10 years ago because Steve Guttenberg recommended them...
I was very unsatisfied so much i put them for seco0ndary computer use for 10 years , no music...
My life changed, i lost my big speakers, i was alone with headphone which i would modify and with the 4 inches woofer speakers... :)
Now i see it as my best purchase in audio ever...
Why ?
Because active means i only need a low cost tube preamplifier but if i want to have audiophile speakers with this under 150 bucks speakers i must modify them...No speakers designers will design porthole with three feet external tubes behind it ...Most porthole reinforce bass but with great defects because the porthole is designed to please a wife not acoustic...
I did it , story short i add a complex tuned set of tubes to the rear porthole (straws of different lenght and diameter from few inches to three feet and i modified the tweeter waveguide)...
Surprize, surprize: in their acoustic controlled corner these low cost speakers gave me now natural timbre , bass clear and extended at 50 hertz now and a pin point imaging and a soundstage exceeding the speakers plane in all direction by few feet and encompassing my listener position with sounds coming from the side of me not from the speakers...
The ratio S.Q. price matter...
This set up is unbeatable ...
They beat all my headphones easily save the AKG K340 i modified... Deeper bass to 20 hertz and a soundfield out of my head...
Not bad for 100 bucks vintage TOP headphone and 100 bucks speakers modified now becoming king in their category ....
Audiophile experience is grounded in knowledge not on price tags...
And as said here someone who know better than me about speakers :
As some may know, I’m an avid DIYer when it comes to speakers. I’ve built both passive and active and worked with pro sound speakers in theaters. I am ambivalent. That is, I have two strong opinions about each being a good choice.
