I'm going back and forth on the Audioengine A5+ powered speakers and the Infinity Primus p163 speakers.  Please give me some insight because I'm stumped.   The features on the A5+ look nice and with built in amps and powered bass, that relieves a lot of room and money from other components...

I downloaded EAC and did an advanced settings configuration that I was recommended.  One of the options for such a configuration was to use the external compressor flac.exe, which came downloaded with copy V1.0 beta 3 of EAC on 08/12.  I set the directory correctly, and finished with all the...