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A lot of really good hifi seems to move toward active speakers though?
It's certainly possible to build really good active speakers.
Strictly speaking "active" just means crossover before power amp (at least it did when I was a boy), it doesn't necessarily mean power amps inside the speaker cabinets. On that basis, a system can hardly be called high end if it doesn't have active speakers 🙂
A lot of really good hifi seems to move toward active speakers though?
Depends what inputs the active speakers have and if remote etc is nice, but don't see why you would be missing something.