Active & passive designs
Where amplification and crossover functions are located
Articles tagged Active & passive designs
How to plan your first hi-fi system
Start with where you listen, what you play and what you already own. Choose a complete route from each source to speakers or headphones, identify its volume control, and check every connection. Then allow space and money for the missing equipment, support and cables. A first-system plan is ready when its functions, physical layout and everyday operation are clear.
Active, powered and passive speakers: what is the difference?
Passive speakers need power amplification outside the speaker system. Powered speakers include it. Active, used precisely, describes a crossover that divides the signal before separate amplifier channels drive the different frequency bands. A powered speaker can use either an active or a passive crossover, so the label alone does not tell you the internal arrangement or which inputs and controls it provides.