Phil Leigh;620683 Wrote: > There are relatively few hard facts in this game, but active crossovers > are always better: > 1) much cheaper to construct for a given quality > 2) immune to vibration > 3) no insertion loss = louder/less strain on amps/wasted electricity > 4) more accurate > 4) effective, accurate time alignment of drivers > 5) more accurate frequency response > 6) smaller and lighter > 7) no loss of amplifier damping factor > 8) they sound better! > > > It's not feasible for even ultra-high end speaker manufacturers to > offer active speakers unless they also make amplifiers... and few do
9 You can have digital xover wich is even better . Imho the gains from active xover is so big that it ofsetts any differences between decent amps. So active xover + well designed transistor amps beats passive xover + any amp you can find . Conservative thinking audiophiles want to tinker and switch cables and amps etc. And actually taste you might prefer a certain speaker as they have such great impact and room interaction That speaker mya well be passive. There is simply to few active designs out there you cant pick your poison . If more speaker mfg were to make active designs you could hear it for yourself on a speaker that you like, if that where the case more people would understand my pow in this. This is also the catch there is no market because there is no products, it goes in a circle. Hopefully there is a breaktrough going on actives becomme more common on the cheap side of things, but the cheapest actives dont utilise all advantages, some speakers with built in amps are actually passive :-/ that's very daft, but it saves one amp and you can use a very crude cheap and nasty passive filter. On a positive note logitech knows this the boom uses active digital xover, not to make high end sound but to make the most of whats possible in that little boom at that price. As there in real life are no "cost no object designs" so active will give you most bang for buck. 10. As the amps dont have to figth impossible fillter impedances it can be smaller simpler and cheaper and still performe well. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86483 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
