Adding Subwoofer into 2.0 Powered Speaker
I guess the sub out on the R1850DB is an aberration, maybe it was an experiment or something...
When you go up the price range, it is assumed that you are buying separate speakers and amplifiers, so active speakers disappear at that point. On the lower end, though, you normally see 2.1 systems with the amp being built into the larger casing of the sub, while the satellites are made as small as possible.
If you intend to get a high grade amp down the line, maybe buying an active 2.0 speaker pair was not the best choice? You say you can still return it? I would maybe consider in this case to go for something like ELAC's (as was suggested in the other thread) and either get the amp you want or some cheapo temp amp for the time being...
However, before you invest thousands into your setup, you also have to consider the usage scenario... HiFi and audiophile stuff is sadly not based on hard science as much as, for example, the visual output devices - there isn't really an objective set of meaningful characteristics (though even for monitors those characteristics they put on the box are hardly meaningful), and after a certain price range (which comes way sooner than you would expect) it mostly comes down to personal preferences/personal anatomy.
What's worse, somewhere slightly above that price range comes another point of diminishing returns, where the room treatment and speaker placement can negate all improvements of the setup.
In my room, where a somewhat loud desktop is sitting at the edge of the desk, I mainly got the R1850's out of aesthetic reasons - previous Microlab B-77 didn't match the black&white color scheme. Yet I would be hard pressed to find the difference in sound, despite almost triple the price. Maybe I'm half-deaf, maybe it's the shape of my ears, maybe it's the soundcard, who knows... But I bet at least half of the people who buy sound systems over 100€/speaker are overkilling it Of course, just as with driving cars, self-reporting will tell you that ~90% of the people think they are better than average at it, which leads to getting platinum audiocables and other snakeoil...
I'm saying all that to kind of warn you, maybe? Do you even feel the need for a subwoofer right now with your S2000's? Would it make sense to spend hundreds of €s on a device based on the subjective opinion of people, knowing that there's a great chance they either don't know what they are talking about, or they have a different set of preferences? (I'm saying that as a person who has definitely spent dozens if not hundreds of hours listening to audiophile talks and dev interviews, so I understand the urge)
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