If you want smaller active speakers and don’t need loud volume or deep bass: The diminutive Audioengine HD3 powered speakers put out a surprisingly full sound that our listeners liked in ...

Featuring a 30mm diameter voice coil, the mid-woofer is unusually large compared to most active bookshelf speakers of a similar size. Larger voice coils have lower power compression because they ...

active speakers stick with physical analogue and digital connections, often supporting hi-res audio and sometimes even Bluetooth too. While they often look like standard (passive) speakers from the ...

The Diva Utopia is Focal's first foray into the world of active wireless speakers ... adding up to 400W per speaker – that's 800 watts of total power output from the full system.

However, that could be about to change with the launch of Edifier’s new QR65 active speakers which have just arrived on my desk for review. These powered speakers are available in white or black ...

The result is an active speaker system that boasts 800 watts of power and promises to make streaming high-resolution audio super easy. Put ’em on your wishlist. Each loudspeaker features a pure ...

Streaming is undoubtedly king — it makes up around 84 percent of all music revenue in 2024 — and that’s a big reason why multi-room wireless speakers, made by the likes of Sonos or Bose, are so ...

You have your traditional bookshelf and floorstanding speakers, but there are now wireless speakers and active speakers with amplification built in that negate the need for a separate amplifier, and ...

Active speakers have built-in amplifiers (devices that actually power the speakers and let them play sounds), while passive ones don’t, which means passive ones need to be connected to a ...

The Alto is capable of driving headphones and smaller loudspeakers. It is the first Chord Electronics product to include a 4.4 mm Pentaconn TRRRS output (pseudo-balanced), which is compatible with the ...