I’m really interested in active speakers but what I am looking for is active speakers designed for actual home listening, not studio work. I want a pair of powered speakers to sit back and enjoy the music, not analyse and pick it apart - i.e. have all the things a good passive setup does, just in an active implementation. Two things keeping me from trying active solutions are 1) many of them are of the studio monitor type designed specifically for professional purposes - unforgiving, sterile and analytical to the point of being fatiguing (I need something more forgiving, musical, something that could be listened to for longer periods without fatigue); 2) the in-built amplification in cheaper models is probably compromised and not as good as one might achieve by building a similarly priced passive setup using an external amp (again, I am not an expert and this is just my personal perception, by all means correct me if I’m wrong).
Can anyone suggest a pair of affordable powered speakers to meet the above needs?
Can anyone suggest a pair of affordable powered speakers to meet the above needs?