Well, I'm currently putting together a fully active speaker system from ATC.
From many past demos, the ATC's wether passive or active, always sounded best with Naim, every time.
I'd love to do the same at home.
However, I want to be 100% this time I've done the right thing. Last time my system was very good with passive ATC and Primare amps. It was just that the Naim + ATC 'always' sounded much better.
After another demo of the Active 20, it was decided to go the whole hog (again - and hopefully for the last time), sell up and change to the active + Naim(very possibly).
As our intial demo was based on Active 10s, we thought they weren't as good as our (now sold) ATC SCM 35s. And they weren't. But as always with buying and selling etc, after we'd bought all our kit at great expense, the 20s appeared and 'they' are what we should have compared with originally. I expect we'd have bought them the first time around, saving the hassle and cost now!
Now, we 'should' end up with -
ATC Active 20 fronts
ATC Active 10 rears
ATC Active C4c centre
Source - Arcam FMJ DV27 (but with their DVD5 appearing, I'll be keeping an eye on that one).
Sub at some later date - no money
Processor to be decided, but the Naim just sounds so good! Hence the search to see if anything matched its sound, as we also want hifi from this kit.
With the deals I've managed to find on the speakers vrs the money lost on the kit we bought first time round, I think we've broken about even - ish, except the extra cost of the processor, which I'd love to get spot on.
It's taken a few years of buying/selling/trading up to get here, so a few days/weeks/months of trying processors won't hurt. I'll just pray they don't release a AV3 just after I'd plumped for a AV2 say.
