Do active speakers have high THD amplifiers?

The answer is No.

But, how does it taste.  I watch some posters banter about the ingredients and then recipe for perfect sound conjuring up concrete conclusions.  Fact is, one could gather the same ingredients for a dish and come up with a completely different result.  And that is what we do here, cook up aural dishes.

It's all in the execution.  Recipe calls for salt.  Kosher salt? Celtic smoked salt? Himalayan pink?  Alton Brown would take the same recipe and crush us all.  Execution will always radically change the end result.

When one has actually owned and operated 20K active speakers (studio monitors/floor standers) and compared them directly with 20K of amplification and passive speakers and states "I like passive with amplification better", well then fine.  I can accept that, I've no real skin in the game.  I've already played the game and decided for myself.

I simply do not read that out of the postings.  I encourage more critical thought and an upscaling of information.

Do active speakers have high THD amplifiers?

Just to add to my first answer, it’s not that active xovers seem to my ear to add any distortion, but more that they "seem" to strip the "harmonic structure" from the music in the mids and highs and leave just the (admittedly "clean" fundamentals).
This is why I feel they sound thin from the mids and highs and leave things sounding too "sterile" for my liking

Cheers George

Naaa sorry not with massive ML Neolith paneled Monolith ESL’s from lower mids to highs, it says what right and what’s not to my ear. And a good passive xover sounds far better than any active I’ve tried
I wanted to try the fully discrete Nelson Pass First Watt Active XO but none available any more, that "could" of changed my mind.

Cheers George