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<blockquote data-quote="Kip Conner" data-source="post: 50259" data-attributes="member: 445">Re: Moved to Active/Self-Powered or stay passively powered?I only have one fear when I take an active rig out for any event... being dead in the water. Even if you check everything before it goes on the truck there&#039;s always the chance that something bad can happen and you loose the power amp in your speaker. Unless you have a spare- what do you do? They aren&#039;t really field repairable unless you are extremely clever. They are mostly field disposable.With a passive system and you loose an amp there are ways to re-wire and get your system up and running- even if it means robbing a monitor mix from the band. I have a pair of active speakers that I love, but often wonder if I should order a amp unit or just a spare to be safe. What keeps me from doing it is the frequency at which I use this rig. When I first started doing this work i used to get together with one of the guy I worked with and we used to test each other with dooms day scenarios- audio style. For instance, you go to power on the rig and the crossover is dead and you have no spare- what do you do? We were often by ourselves with a helper/hand and we had learn to be real resourceful with what we had to work with on most occasion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kip Conner, post: 50259, member: 445"] Re: Moved to Active/Self-Powered or stay passively powered? I only have one fear when I take an active rig out for any event... being dead in the water. Even if you check everything before it goes on the truck there's always the chance that something bad can happen and you loose the power amp in your speaker. Unless you have a spare- what do you do? They aren't really field repairable unless you are extremely clever. They are mostly field disposable. With a passive system and you loose an amp there are ways to re-wire and get your system up and running- even if it means robbing a monitor mix from the band. I have a pair of active speakers that I love, but often wonder if I should order a amp unit or just a spare to be safe. What keeps me from doing it is the frequency at which I use this rig. When I first started doing this work i used to get together with one of the guy I worked with and we used to test each other with dooms day scenarios- audio style. For instance, you go to power on the rig and the crossover is dead and you have no spare- what do you do? We were often by ourselves with a helper/hand and we had learn to be real resourceful with what we had to work with on most occasion. [/QUOTE]

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