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<blockquote data-quote="zako" data-source="post: 7858728" data-attributes="member: 629735"><p>In my humble opinion, going active is almost useless without more advanced DSP capabilities such as time alignment, an advanced equalizer, etc. Without this, all you gain from &quot;going active&quot; is the ability to level match the tweeter and woofer with more precision than what your particular crossover box allows. The crossovers for some high end speakers have tweeter attenuation and sometimes bi-amp capability and phase management, and other features &quot;relieving&quot; the amplifier from the need of having active front stage capability. Also, the so called &quot;active capable&quot; amplifier crossovers do not always have the frequency range for all speakers. For example, HAT Unity, Imagine, and Clarus typically like the crossover frequency between woofer and tweeter to be in 5-6KHz range. A lot of supposedly &quot;active capable&quot; amplifier crossovers can&#039;t do this.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="zako, post: 7858728, member: 629735"] In my humble opinion, going active is almost useless without more advanced DSP capabilities such as time alignment, an advanced equalizer, etc. Without this, all you gain from "going active" is the ability to level match the tweeter and woofer with more precision than what your particular crossover box allows. The crossovers for some high end speakers have tweeter attenuation and sometimes bi-amp capability and phase management, and other features "relieving" the amplifier from the need of having active front stage capability. Also, the so called "active capable" amplifier crossovers do not always have the frequency range for all speakers. For example, HAT Unity, Imagine, and Clarus typically like the crossover frequency between woofer and tweeter to be in 5-6KHz range. A lot of supposedly "active capable" amplifier crossovers can't do this. [/QUOTE]

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