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The majority of center speakers are designed differently because they have to account for the limited space available in most domestic...

That doesn't strike me as Ascend's MO at all. I've seen Dave suggest less expensive speakers to forum users when a particular use case...

I'm not the OP, but I (perhaps rightly or wrongly) interpreted this as how a given speaker responds to room boundaries. For example, in...

I wouldn't expect either speaker to win across every track in a blind comparison. Both are reasonably neutral and there is enough of a...

There's a lot there that I agree with and a fair amount that I don't. Due to limited time I'll just grab a couple points for now...

Yes, you've definitely missed some things. You've missed defining what a "house sound" means relative to bass. I have never see any...

I voted for spatial performance as most of the other options can be supported / helped by subwoofers.

Once you land on speakers that suit your needs and preferences in terms of frequency response, extension, directivity, etc, most of the...

Missed this the first time, perhaps another OP edit. I'm not sure how anyone could declare this to be the case for any speaker. Not even...

This is an easy no for the simple reason of bass performance. There are some (very expensive) giants out there which can output...

Just need three more to smooth out those room modes.

Agreed and I mentioned this already. If you're up and about a lot, go with the Titan dome version (or other non-ribbon of your choice)...

I feel like this question was asked here (almost exactly) not too long ago. As has already been mentioned, bass and dispersion...

Audyssey XT32 is fine. I've used it for dual and four subwoofer setups and it did a great job of time aligning the subs and smoothing...