New Sound System

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I don't know what to say without being offensive to the people you know that play with the signal for weeks and not being able to get a good sound. It's their limitation. A passive crossover system won't help a bad sound over an active system...The passive crossover is SO limited.

I completely concur with buying good equipment, you can use the passives and forget it. Hand me ANY car you're working with, the passives and an active processor and I can show your ears the difference. There's too much one is able to do NOT to be able to fix any "dead sound" issues with an active versus passive. In my instance, I've got great equipment, and world beating flexibility. I don't limit myself to one sound profile. I can and have changed the sound with a couple flips of the stereo knobs that have improved the stage and sound from the previous set. I'm not limited to the one setting that a passive confines one with.

If we're simply placing a passive into the signal chain, I can easily (yes EASILY) recreate that exact same network with the active processor. T/A would really have nothing to do with it unless your speakers are already a little off due to whatever reason. The passive crossover won't magically fix bad sound. That's why T/A there...to adjust for odd or tweaky placements.

If you have dead sound due to time alignment, reset it and do it over because you've screwed something up. It's be folly to throw away more flexibility away simply because one is too thick-headed to figure it out.

For me it's like going from flying a modern airplane back to a WW I airplane.