Active Vs Passive Power Required For Comps

Passives don’t waste power. It’s less then a watt.

You need as much as it takes to reach your desired output.

No. That’s BS

The extra power comes in handy when dealing with the reactive nature of all the different components in the passive crossover, combined with the reactive nature of the drivers. They can pose difficult loads to the amplifier because of the multiple inductive and capacitive phase angles and the cost of that is a looser "grip" on the driver itself. A few watts will make most drivers sing, all the extra power goes mostly into controlling the circuit/drivers during the wildly varying waveforms and amplitudes that music is composed of. So you need a few watts to get going and a few more to get going louder, all the while having tens to hundreds on tap for the necessary dynamics. You basically have a direct grip on the driver in an active scenario, and this offers better control.

Active. You can use the point and slope that fits your install. You can have more tuning ability in the tweeters intensity.

Timing if it’s greatly different.

Passive. You can’t do any of that.

Power is not the deciding factor, it’s no factor.

Will the Audison SRx4 run components for Front active or is this not enough power.Something like lower tier hertz or similar

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A watt is enough power.