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Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers?

Hi guys,

Just a general wondering though, nowadays I've seen a lot of new active speakers, and truth to be told, I find them quite professional indeed, when I go into an audio shop and ask some advice, some might even encourage to purchase the bookshelf speakers, as they're more cost-effective and space-saving hahah.

All that asides, regarding the sound quality matter, it ain't bad at all, but I'm not sure if it's my living room just not that big or some technical matters, the sound experience is actually vivid, but yeah I also think when you put the extra circuit inside the speaker for amplifying use, it'd certainly affect the original performance more or less. Especially under this digital streaming era, every part seems to be specifically separated, so it can perform to its fullest, and lessen the interference between each device.

Anyways, let me know what you think, I'd be grateful, or maybe share you existing setup with us!

Best,

preston8452

Showing 1 response by lonemountain

lonemountain
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Personally I prefer separates and I don't like to idea of being stuck with a speaker manufacturer's choice of amplifier.

 

I don't like the idea of being stuck with a manufacturer's choice of passive crossover, with the many feet of lossy wire (air core inductors) and a whole bunch of electronic parts that have "a sound" now stuck forever between my amps and the drivers where the sound begins.  With active, I can get the crossover part done BEFORE the amps at line level without any loss and I can control driver phase to get a phase linear system, and I can get rid of the biggest lossy thing in the entire system, the speaker cable.   Just sayin....

This isn't controversial is it?

Brad

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