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In Reply to: Have you switched to active? posted by audiogremlin on December 22, 2009 at 15:31:47:
>Who here has switched to active speakers after years of using passive speakers? Was it worth the switch? How do you control the volume from the listening position (isn't the volume control on actives on the speakers itself)?Both my systems are active tri-amp. The bedroom system has on-board amplification for midrange + tweeter. It's worth it - you get enormous flexibility in how you deal with bass (for instance, you can accept reduced sensitivity in the last octave with little musical content or for baffle step without padding the rest of the speaker down to match) and more headroom. Getting flat transfer functions in 3-ways is also more practical than with a passive cross-over.
Obviously, it's still possible to build a bad active speaker. The design has to be otherwise correct.
You use your preamp to control the volume just like with a separate power amplifier. Or in a single source (digital?) system you use the source's variable outputs.
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