Sound Advice’s Ed Selley has just spent some time with the Active twenty5.23i speakers and here’s what he had to say in his “Sound Advice 2025 Recommended” review:
“The control and articulation that it demonstrates is hugely impressive, and ensures that even extremely fast and congested passages of music are dealt with in a manner that feels effortless.”
“What’s more surprising is that this change [to active] has ensured the 23i has even more low-end impact. It’s able to hit that little bit harder, and it does this across the volume range rather than needing to be pushed hard. The result is an incredibly impressive level of heft for a speaker this svelte – and it’s not an isolated lump of bass stuck at the end of the frequency response, but the logical conclusion of a beautifully cohesive response.”
“Do you want to streamline your box-count without compromising on serious hi-fi credentials? The PMC is an absolutely peerless solution to those requirements.”