It's highly unlikely you will damage speakers rated at, lets say, 50w with a 200W transient , it is more likely you would damge the same speakers with a 20w amp clipping for an appreciable amount of time. The huge advantage of actives is that the amp is "narrow" band , IE designed to the driver and not "wide" band (an amp designed to drive anything that comes it's way) and of course there is no expensive casing etc required for amps in active speakers. The ideal scenario is to reproduce the music at the level it was "recorded" at , IE as lifelike as possible. If you listen at low volumes , your ear loses some sensitivity at the freq extremes , so unless you use "loudness" compensation..it really doesnt matter what your amp is as long as it has enough welly to drive the speaker , it's not going to sound linear.
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