I have used these in several residential projects both with and without the bass module. In your case you do not need the bass extension module and probably wouldn't want to live with it either as the speaker becomes quite large.So, I am just crawling out of a jbl cbt 70j-1 rabbit hole … on the surface these speakers + the bass extensions + 2-4 subs + some dsp seems like it might work for my room. However, I am concerned that everywhere I went, I read about how these were ‘great surrounds” or ‘great church speakers’, but nothing about how they were ‘great reference stereo speakers in a 2.2 set up’. So that makes me question if I should be thinking they could work in that scenario for me? I seems to be consensus that the kh 310 monitors, or any such ‘bookshelves’ sized speakers ain’t gonna cut it. I really need ‘large’-ish towers of something like these cbts. What are the views around CBT’s (+subs) vs something like the kef r11 metas, or the mofi 888, revel 208, or paradigm founder 100f’s?
Read Amir's CBT review and his conclusions. I think this speaker will be a really good compromise of size, price, and performance for your unusual project. Pair them with four small subs and you will have the potential for a stellar system.