beagleman
Major Contributor
You guys all have to remember the target audience. People who don't care about sound and don't even know equipment reviews exist. But it is way over priced for what you get. Klipsch went full Bose quite a few years ago. This was a conscious business decision made by management to do what Bose was doing at the time. So they have moved into making everything. Lots of lifestyle products. Now Bose doesn't make as much and Klipsch makes it all. When they decided to do this I figured it would be bad. It hasn't turned out as bad as I thought it would. Most of their products are ok to good. Some is pure crap. At the time I thought it would all turn to crap. This is another story where I was on the fringe of the Klipsch circle and knew it was coming years ago. I wanted them to really start making relatively flat high quality speakers for the masses. I guess they wanted PC speakers, ear buds and other very modern junk, well, junk at that time. It was a money making decision on their part to stay in business. Oh well......
I am not certain about this. They could have made it sound pretty much any way they wanted. (Not defending it, but just feel it was all intentional) But they chose and spent money to get big full bass sound from a fairly small box.
I think the audience is more based on wanting a simple box, that can play fairly loud and have some real bass impact. Having just listened to quite a few blue tooth speakers, literally NONE sounded like what we in here would call a "Good neutral stereo system".
But bear with me, I think that what we see as neutral and clean sounding, with smallish bookshelf speakers, tends to sound, not all that loud, and lacking in any real bass.
I totally get and agree this is not "HiFi" at all, but many of those bluetooth speakers I listened to, made me want to crank them up and they were VERY ENJOYABLE to listen to how much strong bass I could hear from a box I could easily carry.
The bass is a positive thing, if you are wanting to have some fun, play it outside or just get some bass impact.