Well there are many really good active speakers out there, you don't have to look further than Audioengine and Dynaudio, speakers are a blast and NO proprietary connectors there
No chance in the world for me too to look at active speakers that are utilizing 100% proprietary technology....
It's like if the Samba server implementation on Ubuntu could only be accessed by Ubuntu clients
The world is open now, even Microsoft is putting immense resources to make Office run in Android, ios and MacOS.
Microsoft is the favored cloud provider for Redhat enterprise linux....
IBM is making server implementations for Apple's Swift programming language and frameworks (develped for ios)
Proprietary technology is the face of legacy thinking, If Elac is utilizing proprietary connectors here, good grief guys !!!!!
I guess Bel Canto, Linn, Lyngdorf is doing some of the same.... What's wrong with you guys, you should talk!