You don't like active speakers but do you mean electronically active or digitally active? If you don't like digitally active speakers, is it because they have over-lapping sound power and listening window curves and no mid-band resonances?

You have to remember a speaker's frequency response curve shouldn't look like a woman's figure.

Here's your chance to dump (trade in) those junkers for active speakers. Ian will forgive your transgression.

House of the Rising Sone
Out in the mid or far field
Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated