it could ... make it less sonorous, and more nuanced and textured. think less smear/blur, more detail. a trade-off I would prefer and a more real presentation. but different than possibly intended by the maker.
so the change should be good depending on one's perspective. but the issue here is that it could change the voicing.
Absolutely agreed in my own personal experience if passive isolation where it was clear that clarity, detail, instrument separation improved...but where tonal balance had to be monitored throughout the process of finding the optimal isolation for each component. Now, i fully admit i personally believe Stillpoints Ultra 5s DO change the voicing slightly with an ultraclear but teeny-bit thinned upper mid frequency range...and it drove me absolutely crazy for hours until 3am trying to figure out how to keep all that glorious clarity without having a Steinway sound like an electronic keyboard (no depth/power of key strike and tone)...and i finally figured out that adding Nimbus Couplers to the top of the Ultra 5 (directly underneath the component) was exactly the right tonal depth, power and balance...while maintaining the detail that i so enjoyed from the Ultra 5.
Now, passive components might possibly come with a lot more issues than active...i am just noting my personal experience with isolation. And I also admit the tonal shifts may have been the passive isolation rather than the equipment...but i instinctively doubt it was ONLY the equipment. I have to imagine some of it was the electronics reacting to the isolation as well. Fortunately, i think in the end the electronics react extremely well to the particular isolation we've got.
In sum, i absolutely believe that I managed to maintain the tonal quality of the original equipment we bought...but with far greater bass power, slam, detail, air, etc, etc...but boy it took 24 straight hours of work one weekend plus periodic finetuning thereafter until we got the 'formula' right to my ears. That may/may not be the case with Herzan/active but buyers beware it may not be 100.0% plug and play.