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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.

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 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.

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@thespeakerdude 

Like I said, you have no substance, no speakers, and no evidence about your "expensive crossover" claim. You obviously don't know ANY speaker that you are talking about. All you gotta do is post a link to a passive speaker that uses an expensive crossover, that's what you posted so we are all waiting.