Are active speakers worth it now?

An active system, absolutely, which I assume you are already aware of since, if I remember correctly, you are using powered subs with a miniDSP.

Active speakers…depends. If the manufacturer gives you full access to the DSP engines or you are using them in a very well treated room, definitely. If you don’t have access to the DSP and your are in an untreated room, then I believe that most of the benefits of an active speaker would be lost to the room. Though, having the ability to control, at the very least the output ratios between drivers, can offer significant improvements to your listening enjoyment.

I agree with ditusa, using external active balanced electronics will allow your system to achieve its highest potential. I say balanced, because with external electronics you can be in the position where you could be using several feet of extra cabling and possibly several gains stages and running single ended leaves the door open for too much unwanted noise to enter the chain.

I'm not sure about good value but I do know ATC makes some incredible active speakers if buy in a heartbeat 

An additional thought. Good amplifiers put great thought and effort into reducing physical vibration control. Putting the amplifier into a vibrating speaker box is completely antithetical to this. I can hear improvement in my system by putting vibration control on my separate amp. While my speakers weigh 134 pound each, the vibration their sound is creating is easily measured between the speakers. This is one of the reasons that Townshend Podiums are so effective at improving the sound of my speakers.

Vibration is the enemy of high end sound reproduction.

An active system, absolutely, which I assume you are already aware of since, if I remember correctly, you are using powered subs with a miniDSP.

This is true, but in my case I have 3-way L, C and R speakers with integrated 3-way plate amps.  They are DIY so you can’t do the same math as for commercial speakers, which is what I wanted to talk about.  In the commercial land, the passive to active markup seems astronomical. 

Honestly I think many readers are interpreting my question as "are active speakers any good" which is fine but I wanted to focus more on the $$$ delta between active and passive, which I think is also worth discussing. 

@erik_squires in the case of commercial active speakers for the residential market how would you calculate the portion of the markup you are highlighting that is attributable to the work of matching the amplification to the speaker?  For many responding to your original question, they value the flexibility to do that work themselves (i.e., matching external electronics, and in some cases DSP, to passive speakers), but objectively, that work has value (or cost, even if it is *fun* for them).

Isn’t the seller of actives in part offering a service of doing that work for the buyer, who, like @fastfreight ’s son, values *not* doing that?  

Put another way, assuming you were willing to do it, how much would you charge over the cost of the components to build a 2 channel pair of actives for a stranger  (i.e., someone for whom you were not inclined to do favors)? And can you break out the pure labor time for assembly once the pieces are chosen from the time necessary to choose the right pieces for the best synergy? (And I suppose there is also the additional time needed to design the enclosures to account for the vibration issues others have mentioned?)