nathan
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No, but you can market a package deal to people that don’t want speakers bigger than a shoebox in their living room but want surround sound. The exaggerated highs will make it sound ‘detailed’ to some and for the price of a subwoofer many will have a setup they are plenty happy with. Besides audioholics says no matter how big your front speakers are you should always set them as small in your AVR
It's not just audioholics. Reading through Harman's research from Welti and Olive, summarized by Toole, or looking at Geddes work, and many others, such an approach to bass management (term coined by Grimani and a concept still used by him in more than a thousand rooms he has worked on) makes lots of sense not just in theory but in practice, when measured in rooms.
That being said, the SINGLE sub in this package is problematic -- and not just because the high crossover these speakers need means a single sub would have issues with localization but also because a single sub can't fulfill the Welti, et al approach to bass.
And 200hz is really an unfortunate -3 db zone. 150hz begins to be far more manageable, especially in a multi sub setup.
But at this price point, who is running multiple subs (especially multiple subs correctly)? And then you get into discussions of similarly okay measuring speakers that can play down lower, for similar money, and the value prop recedes.
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And yet if a relative asked about this system versus a sound bar in the same price category, I'd probably choose this every day of the week.
Glad to see the measurements, to understand this area of the market!