<story><title>Reverse-engineering my speakers&apos; API to get reasonable volume control</title><url>https://jamesbvaughan.com/volume-controller-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christina97</author><text>For those considering buying speakers: (1) do it, (2) get passive ones and a separate amp. Honestly it’s such a mature market that buying these active speakers just creates e-waste. Keep the e-waste to the amp. You can get really solid speakers for $300 and a cheap amp with BT for $50-100, replacing them basically independently depending on your needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Endurancee</author><text>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&amp;#x27;t offered or focussed much on active systems, have growing range of options now.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reverse-engineering my speakers&apos; API to get reasonable volume control</title><url>https://jamesbvaughan.com/volume-controller-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christina97</author><text>For those considering buying speakers: (1) do it, (2) get passive ones and a separate amp. Honestly it’s such a mature market that buying these active speakers just creates e-waste. Keep the e-waste to the amp. You can get really solid speakers for $300 and a cheap amp with BT for $50-100, replacing them basically independently depending on your needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squarefoot</author><text>Quality active speakers very rarely break, but one should buy them from studio gear (e)shops instead of the nearest mall. I totally agree on other gimmicks that would add single points of failure and should be kept out.</text></comment>