Monkey because that’s not a fair comparison. Between a cream of the crop $8.5K passive speaker and a cream of the crop $11.5K powered speaker, the passive will of course be better.
However, will you have DSP in the system? Because the boundary gains and whatnot that the Kii will offer are of benefit, especially if using them as nearfiel monitors, as intended.
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