active studio monitors for home listening

[Husky Band]

Your receiver has a pre-amp section and a power amp section. You want to send signal from the pre-amp section to the powered monitors. That is usually a RCA type connector on the back of the receiver. I don't know if you'll have a post EQ type send though, you may only have a tape monitor and that would mean that you would have no volume or tone controls. What ever you do, DON'T hook up the powered monitors to the SPEAKER output jacks in the back of the unit. This is for passive and not active speakers. Doing this would probably damage one or both units.

[garww]

Ya, there is no reason to buy active monitors. The note about the bi-amping of active monitors holds some weight, but I don't see it and much of a issue in comsumer electronics.

I question the use of monitors for home use. Get something that sounds good, instead of critical.

My old speakers, in current use, have a cap crossover and sound great. 8-inch with paper cone tweeter.

[brandondrury]

Dynaudio Bm15s are passive monitors.

True, but there is a BM15a which is powered.

All the powered speakers I've seen didn't come with jacks to insert speaker cables. You'd have to tear into the thing. (So, in other words....no.)

Brandon