The Golden Ear Triton One R’s have a 1600 watt, active subwoofers built in and they sound surprisingly good. I’m waiting for my local dealer to get in a pair of the Triton References.
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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.