For high-power hybrid active power filter, in order to effectively reduce the capacity of the active part and improve the performance of compensation, a new hybrid active power filter is improved firstly. By setting up single phase equivalent circuit, two kinds of traditional voltage-source control strategies are analyzed. On this basis, the paper focuses on studying a voltage-source compound control strategy. After analyzing the filtering principle of the compound control strategy, the paper researches the method of the harmonic detection, the compensation of the filtering delay, and designs a complete circuit structure of the compound control strategy. Finally, simulation experiments are carried out on three control strategies. The compensation current of the system and dynamic tracking performance of the current waveform are compared, the result shows that comprehensive performance of hybrid active filter based on the compound control strategy is superior to the traditional voltage source control strategy with more practicality.