Quality of active speakers are really good these days, they have matched amps and speakers from neumann, genelec etc also has active crossover which is superior than any passive setup.
Mature market sure, but even companies like KEF who didn't offered or focussed much on active systems, have growing range of options now.
Sure from a longevity perspective, you are 100% correct and for HIfi/Home use I'd recommend the same.
I am not sure however if your estimation is correct for all cases. The amount of killed tweeters I have seen would not have happened with an active speaker..
> I am not sure however if your estimation is correct for all cases.
Apologies. Next time they'll do a 10-year study on the subject before daring to comment on a public forum, ensuring that each and every angle is covered so that le smart folks like yourself will be able to sleep at night.
No need to be bitter. I don't even know you, so I mainly said my experience is different.
Now maybe that is because I am an electronics guy and people come to me with their broken stuff and I see what actually breaks, but isn't the point of a public forum to say something and be occasionally wrong? Should I rather have stayed silent?
I don't know about you, but if some knowledgeable person corrects me, I am grateful for getting a check on my perspectives. This is the value of discussion.
You can see >30 year old Genelec 1031A all around the world in perfect working order. Their die cast aluminium models using the whole box as heatsink should be able to last even longer, theoretically.
I'd say active (especially digital active) is too much of an improvement to pass up, but if you only want to talk about waste and reliability, try to find about support and spare parts company policy.
Some prestigious passive brands like Revel have some forum horror stories about lack of spare parts for 10 year old models that barely got discontinued while Genelec says https://www.genelec.com/product-warranty-lifetime
Unsurprisingly it's showing what's going . It's usually encouraged when female takes masculine roles but not same other way around if male want to take more of a caregiver role, because men are seen as sole bread earner.
In society females can be much more vocal about what they think and want but suffer little to no consequence.
Also there are huge efforts being made to move females into male spaces they are actively encouraged, but there are rarely anyone who is doing the same for young men or giving them male related advice.
Seems like these only applies to S24 series, will be nice if they do these for S23 series also or at least flagships.
Although I'm thinking as the next gen leaps are getting diminished year by year and smartphone like Pixel 8 are already more pricy than it should have been, companies can just jack their prices with even less innovation saying 7 years security updates but how long does an average user keeps phone anyway and will batteries are going to last that long.
I didn't have money or income for the vast majority of this. Parents couldn't help. What else do you have to do than think about where your next dollar will come from?
