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Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore?

Hello to all,

On the recent days, I noticed that a lot of manufacturers of Hifi 2 channel systems, had plenty of options in a not so long past, of active crossovers, like Luxman, Accuphase, higher end Sony stuff, and many more, why do you think HiFi manufacturers abandoned the inclusion of active cross overs, channel dividers, in their lineup?

Accuphase still makes a digital one.

Appears that this devices are only still relevant in the Pro Audio world, why Home HifI abandoned the active cross over route? It's correct to assume that?

I think that can be very interesting tri-amp a three way loudspeakers with active cross overs, would like to know more about it too...

Share your thoughts about the subject, experiences in bi-amp and tri-amp with active crossovers and etc....

Thanks!
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cosmicjazz OP
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That's why I'm thinking about the option that I posted above, maybe you can cut costs with some "more vintage" components, and a multi channel high end amp...
douglas_schroeder
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I have a speaker system, the Legacy Audio Whisper DSW Clarity Edition, that can be set up active or passive. I can make either setup outperform the other. I have done this consistently over the years. My perspective is that once you begin changing elements of an audio system it is simplistic to declare one method inherently superior. YMMV 

You can read about this special speaker system that Legacy Audio did at my request, and the article about it at Dagogo.com  


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bache
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in my  project Bache-audio -002 first edition  we use build in 2 active 
Class D  amp with electonic crossover , sub  20-150hz and upper bass
150-700hz ,  For 700-25000 hz we use only 2 capacitors, one for widerange to protect from low freq and one for  super tweeter same idea, so you can use only one external preferable Tube low power SAT .
But a lot  different combination can be used,  for my point of view 
is not necessary to use 3 same amps,  Class D especially NCORE-Is excellent choice to power bass,tube is better to power mid and high.
If you have more question ,  email  Greg  
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bache
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see some http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/bache/1.html
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mijostyn
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The best crossovers are digital and their best use is for subwoofer management. The problem for some analog people is that this requires putting everything in the digital domain which some of them are adamantly against. Other than subwoofers the best crossover is no cross over. Bi and tri amping is fun if you are building your own speakers and digital crossovers can make a speaker hero out of a numb skull. Good speakers are carefully tuned by the manufacturer and messing around with them generally makes them worse. 
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