what is an active setup

[ihatejlaudio 10+ year member]

I have seen alot of people talkin about having active speaker setups and I was wanting to know what it is that they are talking about. Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but Im just tryin to learn more.

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[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

basically an active setup is that you use an active crossover to set your crossover pts and slopes. so you have complete control on what speaker sees what frequency while a passive setup is where the company that you bought your components off of has already built a crossover for that component set. look up any component set and should come with their own passive crossovers. do a search on active crossovers and passive crossovers.