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@lonemountain ,

I am a huge proponent of active obviously but i also have to accept that a complex (expensive) passive crossover can achieve almost all that an active system can. You would not see that in a professional monitor.

Most of our cherished music was mixed on passives complete with all those little elements as well. They couldn't work hard to keep them there if they couldn't hear them.   

You get frustrated that passive just smooths all this information over, covers it up in the background, the mix now is somehow missing the little elements the artist and mix engineer worked so damn hard to put in there for you, but content wise it sounds very similar.

@donavabdear , remember I wrote a long time ago now it seems that low distortion, accurate reproduction takes getting used to but once you do it's addictive and you can't go back? What @lonemountain just described was exactly what i meant. 

 You get frustrated that passive just smooths all this information over, covers it up in the background, the mix now is somehow missing the little elements the artist and mix engineer worked so damn hard to put in there for you

I wouldn't have been able to articulate it better. I own passive and active versions of the same Paradigm speaker and the passive smooths it out. 

@thespeakerdude 

but i also have to accept that a complex (expensive) passive crossover can achieve almost all that an active system can.

Why do you bother making stuff up like this without a link to a reference? You can't even name a speaker with an expensive crossover, prove me wrong ok?

@kota1 for reasons only known to you you have issues with me. Feel free to direct message me and rant all you want. Be respectful and don’t make your issue everyone else’s issue as you are doing. It is disrespectful to everyone else here. Only you can make the actions of not making your beef everyone else's problem.