Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused

See if you like Andrew Jones take on active vs passive(about the 2:00 min mark he gets on a roll) The way he describes being able to match a class D amp for the bass driver and then class A/B amps for the midrange and tweeter because you get rid of the limiting factors in a passive network sounds pretty "pure" to me. After watching this video he makes a VERY strong case for the advantages (both SQ and price point) for active:

"The ($750 active) speakers are so good they can do justice compared to the same speaker in the passive version matched with $4500 of electronics" (6:00 minute mark)

Never really cared for the sound of his speaker designs.

Still waiting for your "theoretical" pure system, please post the @invalid method of system design, can't wait.

@lonemountain 

It's tens of feet -maybe even a hundred feet of wire in a giant LF inductor set up for a very low crossover point.

No maybe. If someone makes a design choice to use an air core inductor on a woofer circuit in a 3 way, it does not even need to be that low of frequency for there to be a couple hundred feet. Go for a low frequency and you can be above 500 feet of wire. Then they may compound that by using Litz increasing the resistance without benefit.

Audiophiles clearly care about speaker wire a lot, there's a huge industry built around it.  Somehow all the wire inside a passive speaker's crossover is just forgotten about.  When the differences in wire are so widely accepted, I can't imagine how a person who invested in great speaker wire would think the much longer length of wire in the speakers crossover inductors is in any way sonically invisible.  

Brad