Phil Leigh;292052 Wrote: > > For me personally I find active is a significant leap in quality from > bi/tri-amping as the passive crossover is gone, gone, gone...and so is > the small waste of electricity that is dumping power for no reason > because of the insertion loss. Active seems to give much better control > at the bass end in particular and has an overall "grip" on the > rhythmic/dynamic aspects of the music that I find lacking in many > non-active setups.
The bass in my (active, quad-amped) system is the best I've ever heard. I think it has more to do with the dipole radiation pattern than anything else, but it would be very difficult (if not impossible) to design a passive crossover that can compensate for the dipole rolloff, so they go together. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46354 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
