Go Active Crossover or Upgrade existing XOs?

With a digital input, only the side effects you intend, which any speaker is going to greatly swamp.

atdavid

With a digital input, only the side effects you intend, which any speaker is going to greatly swamp

There is no crossover that is perfect, not even an active digital crossover. Although speaker systems almost always have distortion many, many times greater than a quality audio component, that does not mean that the speaker system will not reveal faults in those components. What you wrote is a bit ambiguous, so perhaps that’s not what you intended to say.

With a digital input, only the side effects you intend, which any speaker is going to greatly swamp.

Hey, can I go with "DSP" and live happily ever after?  

I think you would have to trade in your audiophile badge

...all of this seems terribly familiar...and recent, as well...;)

HO...going 'active' does not have to require massive amounts of $.  It will necessitate multiple amps, but it will allow you to 'mate' wattage to the drivers involved....more power to the woofers?  Not a problem.  Back off on the tweets?  Same deal...

Gots passive speakers?  Are they out of warranty?
Do you own a screwdriver?
Make notes on the wiring, check the stated xover frequencies, peruse the type/design of the existing passive unit.
Run jumpers out of the port, if there is one.  Otherwise....surgery, some minor manufacturing, wiring....

Set the xover to 'type of'/points/slopes....start with the 'originals', and then dial to taste....or displayed responses...

You will spend more $ on cables....goes with the territory....

You can make it all sound as described above. *S*

You can also make it all sound like thrice-eaten cabbage....

But...that's the wonder and horror of Control. ;)