Phil Leigh;620683 Wrote: > It's not feasible for even ultra-high end speaker manufacturers to offer > active speakers unless they also make amplifiers... and few do That's not strictly true. There are examples of amp and speaker manufacturers collaborating in this arena. The obvious one is Linn and Naim: the PMS Isobarik was originally developed to be driven by three NAP250s. Another example was Nytech and a speaker company that I think was called ARC.
Of course, all of these setups using external general-purpose power amps miss one of the big advantages of active: that the amps can be tailored to the drive units and hence be much cheaper than using generic amps that have to be able to drive passive speakers. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86483 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
