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

Personally I have not gone fully active, but I love the idea of a clean simple system... Two speakers, a streamer, a power conditioner, 4 power cords and one or two interconnects..

Back in the day I used to install a lot of Genelec speakers which are very good neutral studio monitors but not what I would look at for a active system.. I heard Heavenly Soundworks at a couple shows and they are very impressive, incredible bass and soundstage from fairly compact speakers although I think they make some bigger stuff now...

 

Another amazing and really cool looking powered speakers brand is J Porter Studios out of Austin, those are pretty affordable and sounded wonderful, and looked really cool

 

A pair of either of those with a Aurender streamer and a DAC would be amazing

 

@daniel25  - Interesting that ATC lists the input impedance at > 10kOhms.  That does seem relatively low.  I'm used to seeing 25k or higher but hopefully it doesn't affect too many tube pres.

Already had the LTA preamp and just got ATC SCM19A actives. Added a Rhythmic sub and sounds pretty amazing so far.  

LTA is single ended out but no issues driving them with adapters - only a 2M run in my small room

If I was going to go that route I would go for the 

YG acoustic vantage series. 

Yeah it's not cheap, But if I had trade my current system 

That would be the one to get.