Home or Studio speakers

[E-Stat]

This is something I always wondered about but does most audiophiles use home audio speakers, amps, receivers, etc? Or do most people like to use active studio monitors to listen to there music?

Been there, done that - won't do again. The amplifiers *stuffed* into speaker boxes are compact and efficient, but not as good as what is available as a separate power amplifier. And you are stuck with that design. Pass.

...and also less cables to use for your system.

Not really. Remember that you now require double the leads to each speaker: signal and power.

rw

[Mash]

Connecting the power cord along with balanced XLR's is NBD.

If the powered speaker ALSO features servo-feedback control:

1. then any distortions that may be caused by the speaker's internal amp are simply canceled out by the servo-feedback circuit and you will not experience them;

2. and whenever the speaker cone's output might tend to diverge from the preamp input, these diversions are also canceled out by the servo-feedback circuit causing the speaker to accurately reproduce the music.

These are some of the reasons that I prefer a powered speaker to also have servo-feedback control.

[E-Stat]

Connecting the power cord along with balanced XLR's is NBD.

Nope. It just negates the perception of using fewer cables.

rw

[Woochifer]

So what you are exactly saying is that Yamaha NS-10 sounded like car speakers

No, just that it emulated the characteristics well enough so that an engineer could optimize the sound mix such that it would sound decent on those systems (along with sub/sat speakers, which you left out of the quote). Bottomline, it's tailoring the sound mix for the target audience.