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Who has gone fully active? What speakers and preamp did you end up with?

Open question for A'goners who have traded in their floor heaters for fully active speakers.  What did you end up with?

PS - This is not a thread to help me buy, more of an open discussion on a narrow theme.  Thanks!

Thanks!

erik_squires
hk_fan
515 posts
 

I had an active Linn system in the past.  It was good but I didn’t love it.  Conceptually I like the idea.

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rick_n
276 posts
 

Interesting question.  Not for nothing but if cost was no object I would consider the new Focal Utopia Divas.  You get to top of the range speaker from Focal and Naim electronics.  If you add up all the pieces, it's actually not a bad deal!

csmgolf
905 posts
 

I have a pair of internally tri-amped Legacy Audio Aeris. There is a passive crossover between the 4 inch and 1 inch AMT tweeters. Remaining crossover function is handled by the Legacy Wavelet 2. There are multiple contouring options, and each amplifier pair (woofer l & r, mid l & r, and tweeter l & r) can have the level adjusted manually as well.

In another room I have a pair of Bamberg Audio 3 TMW fully active 3 ways with mini DSP Flex unit for eq as necessary. Both systems sound very good.

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bdp24
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There was one active system I was very interested in, but then the designer/builder Roger Modjeski (of Music Reference of course) died, and the system with him.

The system consisted of an electrostatic loudspeaker with no input transformer (all other ESL's have one), the ESL screens driver by a dedicated OTL amplifier. Get it?; a tube amp with no output transformer, and an ESL loudspeaker with no input transformer, the tubes themselves directly driving the ESL diaphragm. I can only imagine the transparency!

The panels had a 4th-order high pass filter at 100Hz, and an 8" woofer in a sealed enclosure, with a 4th-order low pass filter at 100Hz.

 

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patrickdowns
528 posts
 

I've only heard them briefly, but the Dutch & Dutch speakers might be my #1 for a simple second system. They get great reviews, iirc. 

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