In Reply to: Re: I've got both.... posted by Ashley on January 15, 2007 at 03:15:05:
The typical low end active speaker is no more than a speaker with amps and a crossover in the same box. For the most part the only advantage it has is an active crossover that may be better optimized for it than an outboard or passive, and here well integrated high quality separates for the most part will work just as well, if not better. Where things are markedly different is in the upper end, where an on-board DSP perfectly optimized to the speaker offers both frequency response and phase response characteristics that simply cannot be duplicated with separates. This level of technology is rapidly moving down the price point spectrum, and within the foreseeable future will dominate the market.
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- There are active, and there are ACTIVE. - Bill Fitzmaurice 06:19:54 01/15/07 (2)
- Re: There are active, and there are ACTIVE. - Ashley 01:26:50 01/16/07 (0)
- Re: There are active, and there are ACTIVE. - Bill Fitzmaurice 05:52:11 01/16/07 (0)