tomp wrote:
Either way will work, passive or active. I have hear great iterations of each. It depends on how well it is implemented. The number of speakers being built now days with active are growing much faster than passives. That is primarily because building a good passive is much more expensive, especially if you try to include corrections for driver anomalies. Most of the high end speakers are still using passives because the golden ears would not think of letting anyone provide an amplifier for them. How would they then be able to forever do their mandatory tweaking and amp swap outs?
Thank god for the golden ears. Our preferences are expensive, which in turn support our DIY efforts. No doubt there are pretty good active speakers like the Dutch & Dutch 8c, Cabasse Pearl or Sphere, or B&W Formation Duo that are cost efficient and convenient. But the compromises and hassles of putting all your eggs in one basket when something fails or goes wrong - ugh. Letting someone provide Class D amps for my main speakers - ugh again, though these amps are relatively inexpensive. Let the Tube Gods save me from the human misery.
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