Pearljam5000
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LolLet's face it, active speakers use bottom of the barrel amplification because they know nobody is holding them to account in all the usual amplifier performance parameters. They can get away with distortion levels that would be laughed out of the room, because the speaker drivers themselves have more distortion. The power output claims are ludicrous and blatantly deceptive, knowing nobody will test the internal amplifiers. The noise levels are generally very poor, hence every man and his deaf dog are complaining about audible hiss. The only exceptions are, ironically, the hypex plate amplifiers, which perform pretty well.
Audible hiss from an active loudspeaker precludes it entirely from the HiFi playground. Hiss (noise) is an anathema to high fidelity. It's the N in THD+N and by far the most intrusive and bothersome component of the metric. There is no free pass for a hissing active speaker. Strike one and it's out. Kicked to the kerbside pickup where it belongs.
If that was the case, studios would have used only passive speakers with monster amps
Unless you want to tell me that all the professionals in the world that *create* the music you listen to are stupid and use screwed up inaccurate tools and your hi-fi home stereo speakers and amps are the benchmark.
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