New game with active speakers

Meadowlark Audio is back up and running and they are going active for the most part.

They are again making speakers and all of them are active. They do not build passive speakers any more. They look awesome, BTW. With a designer as talented as Pat, I am sure they sound awesome too.

Carefully viewed the Meadowlark website.  I found it odd, exhibiting a near complete lack of design details and bereft of any pricing schedule.

Mind you, I listened to their previous stable of product and liked them.  I wish them well, but find this marketing direction untenable.  Hope they sound great.  No mention could I find of auditioning, return policy or access other than special order and purchase.

Thanks for responses regarding active speakers.

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?

No one can answer that question but your ears.  I swam in audiophile waters for decades seeking the resolute yet warm waters of non-fatiguing amplification and transducers.  Tube guy I was.  Rogers LS3/5As.  Give me some more safe moderate aural schmooze.

In the end analysis I’ve bolted and ran towards exciting, dynamic, slamming, immediate attack when I want it.  I run my ATC SCM 40 actives moderately 95% of the time.  When I want Shostakovich in my face at 112 decibels, then I open up the throttle and bathe in a symphonic tsunami.

I’m convinced only active can get you there.  A bit disheveled perhaps, but you will arrive!

Sorry, got carried away.  Affordable.  Really?  With no parameters?  Throw out a number please.