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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gunz4me2" data-source="post: 6825306" data-attributes="member: 613729">One of my main reasons for going active was to have choice in independent drivers.  Although the so called audiophiles will nail me to the cross for typing this, it is sometimes hard to get pre-packaged component sets to sound good active versus their passive crossovers.  In some CDT sets, they use frequency smoothing in their crossover network for the tweeter.  For example, my TW-25 sounded uber harsh when run active, but sounded much smoother when run passive.On the flip side, active can be a royal pain in the ***.  I've spent countless hours tweaking the drivers in my Mustang, mainly because I can (ha ha).  If it weren't for the love of the hobby, it would have been much faster to just go with a set of Alpine SPX Pro components running passive and calling it a day.</blockquote>

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