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Is active speaker the future?

I know at least Linn and Meridian are making active speakers and they claim that it sounds much better than passive speakers. Linn and Meridian are well known for source but not well known for amp and speakers. The truly dedicated famous speaker maker like Rockport, Wilson Audio and JM labs only make passive speakers.

CD player is dying and digital source player is changing so fast. Speaker hasn’t had any fundamental change for a long time. Active speaker is not new, but will it be the future of the speaker and will we see light on/off or lcd display on most of the speaker?
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Q: "Meridian are well known for source but not well known for amp and speakers."

That is news to me. With Meridain, I would not call the speakers active, rather the D/A converter and amps are built into the speakers and they are fed a digital line signal. With Meridian, you kind of need to buy their whole system (your current amps and pre will not be needed). Meridain's system is about the best I have ever listened to and it really is world class, imo.

On another note, would you consider electrostats to be active since you need to plug them in?
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