I find that commercial CDs are the ones that sound thin on these speakers.

I can see the advantages of self-powered speakers but I'm not sure if they are for me. If I understand correctly, I would have to run both power and speaker cables to these bins (as opposed to just speaker cables) and if one dies at a gig you're in more trouble because you can't just flip around an unpowered monitor and use it as a main to get through the night. Yes?

Thanks.