Well from somebody that has always had speakers with passive crossovers, I recently have been introduced to the world of active crossover enables Line Array speakers , and I cant be more happy with the performance, soundstage and overall simply floored response that my ears are treated to every time I listen to them.
As someone mentioned before , active crossover is mainly used in the home made speaker application, such as my Array system which consists of 28 6.5" woofers and 28 piezo ceramic tweeters in each tower, which were designed and built by a competent electrical engineer (done properly, not a kit per say), the option to adjust and calibrate the frequency, gain of each channel is pretty simple and rewarding to say the least.
And yes they are bi amped, with A REL sub woofer.
There are many active crossovers in the market to choose from , dbx, Samson, Ross power, couple older Nakamichi systems and so on, the one I choose offered many features such as phase control for each channels outputs, mute for each ouputs , delay and threshold limiter etc. all using balanced connections but also available in unbalanced versions to match your equipment. All for under $300.
Don't be scared to venture into the unfamiliar, you might be surprised at what you have been missing.
As someone mentioned before , active crossover is mainly used in the home made speaker application, such as my Array system which consists of 28 6.5" woofers and 28 piezo ceramic tweeters in each tower, which were designed and built by a competent electrical engineer (done properly, not a kit per say), the option to adjust and calibrate the frequency, gain of each channel is pretty simple and rewarding to say the least.
And yes they are bi amped, with A REL sub woofer.
There are many active crossovers in the market to choose from , dbx, Samson, Ross power, couple older Nakamichi systems and so on, the one I choose offered many features such as phase control for each channels outputs, mute for each ouputs , delay and threshold limiter etc. all using balanced connections but also available in unbalanced versions to match your equipment. All for under $300.
Don't be scared to venture into the unfamiliar, you might be surprised at what you have been missing.