I didn't buy active monitors because I would have to turn on three different units to get all 5 speakers working (FL/FR + C + RL/RR). I also can't imagine having to handle 3 different power cords, on top of the usual interconnects.
Would not having all these amplifiers make the system more exposed to ground loops?
And isn't it better (power efficiency wise) to have just one amplifier with some channels than various amplifiers?
I'm not knowledgeable in audio hardware, so I don't know why is better to have the amplifier in the speaker cabinet. When you say that it's because of the passive crossovers? What about bi-amped speakers? Are they also bad just because the amp was not made specifically to that speaker?
I would also like to hear your opinion on what would be the best system. I'm imagining all the speakers without crossovers, with an equalizer (a dcx 2496 on steroids) that would split the frequencies on each channel and send it to each driver in each cabinet, passing through a receiver with lots of channels.
Lot's of questions, but I'm getting into this and I'm very curious about all