Do Passive Speakers Need to Be Connected to an Amplifier?

Do passive speakers have to be connected to an amplifier? In fact, this question is quite common, and many people will have this question when choosing speakers. So first of all, the answer to this question is yes, and we will also explain in detail why passive speakers must be connected to an amplifier.

First of all, we need to understand two types of speakers:

Active speakers: These are the Bluetooth speakers we usually see, which can make sounds when connected to a power source and input source.

Passive speakers: They must be connected to a separate amplifier to work, and ordinary people may have less contact with them in their daily lives.

The function of the power amplifier is to convert all the received sound sources, whether from a mobile phone or a computer, into electrical signals, and then pass them to the speaker to make sounds.

Therefore, both active and passive speakers require an amplifier. It's just that the active speaker has the amplifier built in, so we can't see it. Passive speakers, on the other hand, have an external amplifier, which has stronger resolution than active speakers, and the sound emitted by the speaker will be purer.

It can be said that the amplifier is the heart of the entire audio system, just as important as the external unit of the air conditioner and the refrigerator's refrigeration unit.