Best active speaker

Salagar uses Icepower amps for their active line of speakers.
ATC is very good but I must say very energy wasteful. The heatsinks are hot to touch even when not in use. I read in HDD forum according to AVIhifi founder which is an ex ATC engineer that he finds ATC outdated being that they are spending way too much money on old technology that can't compete with the current ones.
Goldmund has great active speakers as well except they are insanely expensive.
Linn and Naim are great proponents of active loudspeakers.
Dynaudio has some great models as well.
Of course there's B&O that owns the Icepower technology.
If I don't mind the hassle and risk. I will get a deqx crossover with digital outputs connected with Nad M2 pure digital amplifiers with some state of the art loudspeakers.
The so called Class D is going to be outdated soon.

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ATC is very good but I must say very energy wasteful. The heatsinks are hot to touch even when not in use.I read in HDD forum according to AVIhifi founder which is an ex ATC engineer that he finds ATC outdated being that they are spending way too much money on old technology that can't compete with the current on

The amps are heavily biased Class A so yes they are still using some of the best OLD technology (no digital amps or DSP processing like with Meridian actives). They are also massively over-engineered and expensive and play much louder than most people need. Ashley has some not unfounded criticisms of ATC approach which is slow to incorporate the latest technologies that consumers expect. To be fair though, in the pro market the relative stability of their tried and proven bullet proof designs are seen as an advantage.

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how does genelec compare to atc?

how does genelec compare to atc?

Put it this way, when George Massenburg built his latest studio (after 30 years as a renown recording engineer, equipment designer and university lecturer) he installed BOTH.

Ninety tons of MDF were cut and milled to a final cut weight of 40 tons. Beginning with a room footprint of 36' x 25' x 27', the one-inch square MDF pegs come out of the walls and ceiling in lengths that vary from 6 to 40 inches — and no two of the hundreds of thousands of “tines” are the same length.

Somehow, I don't think he cut corners on the speakers - personal preferences may lean one way or the other but both are good.

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