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Do Active Speakers Belong In A High End System?

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In a pair of active speakers, you have removed the high end amplifier from from the equation. The amps on an active speaker will probably be class D plate amps.

All of the flowery adjectives to describe high end amps and high end speaker cables in a system go right out the window when using active speakers.

Is a serious active full-range tower speaker a high-end audiophile possibility? I rarely read about active speakers on this forum in a two channel system.
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rrog
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Active speakers may be higher end. The amplifiers and speakers are matched and the best speaker cable is no cable at all.
rrog
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Onhwy61 is correct. Eliminating the passive crossover, installing an electronic crossover, matching amplifiers to drivers and bi-amping or tri-amping all add up to better sound.
rrog
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I think we have all forgotten about the Acoustat X and Beveridge 2SW-2. Not high end enough for you Bhobba?
rrog
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Harley,

Too much of that sound is built on unrealistic staging and imaging. Never been to a concert that had soundstaging. But, some people like that.

Not only do they like it, they consider their stereo to be the reference above live music instead of the other way around.
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