cliveb;620828 Wrote: > 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.
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