Outboard crossover? Why not?

I see. Sure, I was talking about passive crossover.

Magnepan eliminated the external Xover box on the 3.7 and 3.7i, only because they felt it was an eye sore.

It eliminated the  bi-amping option, which I liked.

Living Voice use external crossovers.

back then Apogee Diva ribbon speakers used to have an external passive x-over. I agree with erik_squires re. the adv of external passive (& active) x-overs.
i also agree that not all passive internal x-overs are bad or compromised. There are several speaker manuf that take a lot of trouble to get the correct & optimum internal passive x-over into their speaker cabinet. 

@bombaywalla 
The Apogee's had no real speaker cabinet though, did they? :) I mean, it was one giant magnet frame.

I did not write anything about advantages of active vs. passive, by the way, at least not here. :) It's more complicated than one or the other being better. Depends on your values and needs.

My preference is a fully digital crossover feeding reference grade DAC's and a multi-channel preamp, but I can't afford that at all. :) After that it's passive.


Best,

Erik