Do active speakers have high THD amplifiers?

 Their only significant problem is a rather noisy fan..

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Behringer NU12000 are the same way.. I have a few (:-)). I can find them for around 375-500. New or refurbished. They have 3 fans. I disconnect 2 of the 3 and put the third over the PS on a mini toggle.

Late night listening I flip the switch off. I have forgot several times and finally left it off. That was 2.5 years ago.. That is a bullet proof class d at 27 lbs.

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@ashoka --

...  My question is which audiophile active speakers have better amplifier specifications.

Active, bundled speakers are often claimed to have "matched" amp-to-driver implementation, but much of this is a gimmick, I find. With active configuration the amp matters less, or the same amp will be given much better conditions to perform at its fuller potential not seeing into a passive cross-over, and so the matched nature is really less important vs. matching amps to passive speakers. Not that matching amps in active configs can't bring advantages, but it's been a cloak for some time now that some active speaker manufacturers have worn to make their endeavors appear esoteric. Give me a break. 

In any case active means better driver control, and it translates - in the combinations I've heard - into less smear, better resolution and transparency. Passive by comparison sounds thicker, duller, more restrained and less immediate, but to other ears that's likely warmer, fuller and more pleasing/laid-back.

Most audiophiles (like in >99%) have been accustomed to the sound of passive speakers for decades - typically via hideously insensitive, smaller speakers - but passive speakers qua passive speakers as such have a rather easily discernible character compared not least to larger, more sensitive and active speakers, and that's something that most may likely never experience or acknowledge as a negative because by and large it's the same (passive) meal they've been served for years. As long as people are happy, to each their own and all that jazz, but active for just named reasons haven't been given due credit where it very much should. 

Good amplifiers tend to be the norm rather than the opposite. If you are buying active speakers from a reputable manufacturer, I'm sure it's a well measuring amplifier.  You should listen to the combo and go by that more than specs.

The answer is No.

But, how does it taste.  I watch some posters banter about the ingredients and then recipe for perfect sound conjuring up concrete conclusions.  Fact is, one could gather the same ingredients for a dish and come up with a completely different result.  And that is what we do here, cook up aural dishes.

It's all in the execution.  Recipe calls for salt.  Kosher salt? Celtic smoked salt? Himalayan pink?  Alton Brown would take the same recipe and crush us all.  Execution will always radically change the end result.

When one has actually owned and operated 20K active speakers (studio monitors/floor standers) and compared them directly with 20K of amplification and passive speakers and states "I like passive with amplification better", well then fine.  I can accept that, I've no real skin in the game.  I've already played the game and decided for myself.

I simply do not read that out of the postings.  I encourage more critical thought and an upscaling of information.