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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Arnott" data-source="post: 48870" data-attributes="member: 304">Re: Moved to Active/Self-Powered or stay passively powered?Hi Brian, I am going to quibble with the last two. With powered boxes, if you lose something, you lose that box (or a portion thereof). Whether it is a driver, or an amp, or an electronic drive. No need to trouble shoot, just replace the box. (Speaking of at the gig, not in the shop afterwards.) With separate power, if you lose an amp, you lose everything that it is driving. So you might lose all you mid high boxes. Or you might lose two channels of monitors. If a speaker goes, you can change the gain structure, or the balance. With a powered speaker it seems that it would be easier to change out one box, on the fly, than to deal with getting a new amp going. This is conjecture on my part. I use both types of systems, but would not have a spare on hand in almost all cases. I think the last one is more of a push. Or you could make a counter point in favor of the powered speakers that there are less things for a guest artist to dick up. Regards, Jack</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Arnott, post: 48870, member: 304"] Re: Moved to Active/Self-Powered or stay passively powered? Hi Brian, I am going to quibble with the last two. With powered boxes, if you lose something, you lose that box (or a portion thereof). Whether it is a driver, or an amp, or an electronic drive. No need to trouble shoot, just replace the box. (Speaking of at the gig, not in the shop afterwards.) With separate power, if you lose an amp, you lose everything that it is driving. So you might lose all you mid high boxes. Or you might lose two channels of monitors. If a speaker goes, you can change the gain structure, or the balance. With a powered speaker it seems that it would be easier to change out one box, on the fly, than to deal with getting a new amp going. This is conjecture on my part. I use both types of systems, but would not have a spare on hand in almost all cases. I think the last one is more of a push. Or you could make a counter point in favor of the powered speakers that there are less things for a guest artist to dick up. Regards, Jack [/QUOTE]

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