I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ...

I have had passives in past and now use ATC Active 50 towers with upgraded anniversary amp pack. I agree that if you are interested in tweaking your system to get a particular sound then having separate amps seem to make sense. I immensely enjoy my active system and have tweaked it by having professionally designed acoustic wall treatment, buying the best power supplies and isolation transformers along with hi quality sources and electronics. I can’t see how anyone can say that having an active crossover designed specifically for the drivers is a great if not the best way to handle the speakers. I can’t speak for other speaker companies amps, but the ATC line are top notch and once again fully optimized for their drivers.

Hmmmm...
Gutenberg has lots of opinions but small amounts of understanding of current advances in speaker/amp designs, in my opinion...which may not be completely accurate either.  Such is the nature of opinions.

But, my ATC 50's, active, blow the socks off all the separates I have used over the last 50 years.  And that wasn't junk either.  

The smoothness top to bottom, the realism, the dead-black background, the clean sound all sold me and continues to this day.  As an extra, ATC does manufacture its own electronics as well as the drivers.  It makes one hell of an active speaker.  

A few years ago when Steve Gutenburg began his dailies, I even joined his Patron (sp) program to support the effort.  In a month I dropped out.  I was learning very little.  Couldn't justify the time.  

This is a bizarre thread for an "audiophile" forum, or did I wander into the recording studio? Think I will take a pass on sitting with boxes aimed at my head. Seems to be popular around here. All that's missing is active Moabs.

Lest we forget the JBL SE 401 Energizer?  My Dorian S12 pair have the knockout for it. A few other JBL speaker models, too.

In Munich I was surprised how poor the Kii room sounded.  They claimed that with DSP on board they were able to get them sounding room-perfect.  But to my ears it was very dry and analytical.   It did sound more like the studio monitors in the studios I sometimes work in.  But pleasant to listen to?  I don’t think so.