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You can use an outboard crossover so you can amp roll, no excuses for the crowd that is afraid of internal amps:

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@secretguy

For the price of $100K+ I would rather have a matched 7.1.4 system of bryston active speakers with bespoke amps of my choice than a pair of Sonus Fabers and a pair of Macintosh/Audio Research monoblocks, YMMV.

The Bryston Active Mini-T’s aren’t any where near six figures and this is for the entire system and the size makes them ideal for a MCH setup.:

The speakers boast a nearly perfect neutral sonic perspective and this, along with the aforementioned incredible revealing attribute serves to place a well recorded small assemble slightly in front of the system, thus producing a striking ”live” illusion, but without any of the hardness and in-your-face elements, often experienced in systems that project the sound forward.

I found that there is little, if any, way to improve the performance.

http://innerearmag.com/reviews/speakers/Audio_Observer_Bryston_Active_System.shtml

@mastering92 You're right ugly is not the right word, and you're right in your description and importance of the brand. I've spent millions on pro sound equipment and lived in LA doing the highest pressure productions on the planet. Now I'm retired and live in Idaho in a beautiful home next to a lake. I'm not watching movies or music for technical gaffs or evaluation I just want to enjoy. I've got an atoms mixing system that I'm about to do some projects on. That system is utility the speakers aren't beautiful (Genelec "the ones" ) but it sound really good and surprises me every time I turn it on.

@kota1 I haven't listened to the video yet I will and thank you. You are a never ending fountain of information. But this picture above is really bad, any speaker in that room will sound bad without exception, you couldn't make a good recording in that room you also can't listen well in that room. Looks more like a commercial set up without cables in a right angle echo chamber. Bryston is a good company this picture is embarrassing for them.

I've literally shot movie and TV productions in rooms that looked like this and told the producers if you let xxxxx actor walk in this room they will be insulted because you can't hear anything and the recording will be awful, this is what happens when a young art director doesn't think it through.