Amps to drive active speakers

[Haleem123]

Hi everyone,

Just a quick question I currently have a full set of B&O speakers and i believe they are all active, i currently connect my 5.1 speaker system to a yamaha rxv3067 amp via preouts, my question is whats the main advantages and dissadvantages of active and passive speakers? does it matter what amp i use to drive my B&O's as my b&o's have inbuilt amplifiers in each speaker. When driven using the yamaha am i getting the sound via the yammy amplification or the inbuilt amps in my speakers?

 

[steve_1979]

When running active speakers using the analogue 'pre-outs' from a receiver you'll be using the speakers own built in amplification. This means that the quality of a receivers own amps will make no difference to the sound because they aren't being used.

 

[lindsayt]

The quality of the power amp section of your Yamaha receiver will make no difference to the sound of your system. That part of your reciever is being bypassed when you take the signal from the preouts instead of the speaker terminals. The quality of the pre-amp section of your Yamaha receiver will make a difference to the sound of your system as that is being used in the signal path. As for the main advantages and disadvantages of active and passive speakers, there have been a few recent threads on this forum discussing this.

 

[Haleem123]

so if i wanted the yamaha to do the sound amplification is there a way in doing this by connecting it elsewhere?

 

[John Duncan]

Not if they really are active, no. Do you know the model number or have a picture?

 

[Haleem123]

The amp is Yamaha rxv3067, speakers are B&O Beolab 8000 (front), Beolab 4000 (Centre), Beolab 6000 (Rears), beolab 2 (Sub), the setup sounds stunning have no gripes at all about it, i just like to experiment abit.