Daft Question Time - Active Speakers/System

[Richard.Dane]

From the forum FAQ…

What is an Active System? (Active Bi-amping & Tri-amping)

From the Products Section. "Simple: it’s the opposite of a passive system. In a passive hi-fi system the job of dividing up music’s high, middle and low frequencies so that they end up at the appropriate drive units in the loudspeaker is performed by an electrical filter network in the speaker. The power amplifier sends the loudspeaker a signal that contains all the high, middle and low frequencies and the speaker’s crossover network sorts them out. This works but it’s not ideal for systems th…