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Do you have passive or powered speakers? (feddit.online)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tuckerm@feddit.online to c/vinyl@lemmy.world

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I have a pair of powered Klipsch bookshelf speakers, and while I don't have any complaints about them, I'm thinking about getting an amplifier and switching to passive speakers, just for a more "purely analog" setup. The speakers I have right now have modern features like a remote and bluetooth, and I don't think I'll miss the remote and I never use bluetooth.

What do you use? I'm not an audiophile by any means, so I'll probably see what affordable, used amp and speakers I can find at a record store or thrift shop, but I'd love to hear your recommendations, too.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

My experience with powered speakers is they are only useful in very limited situations where for some reason the source just won't output that loud of a sound. That being said its sorta hamfisted and never really gives an improved output overall but you can get things louder when you need to. I have not used an amplifier but I guess that with passive will do a whole lot better. I mean mayber their are some sorta high end powered speakers that do better but I bet if they exist they would have all sorts of controls and likely are something like an amplifier in a speaker.