So the speakers must be connected to the internet to set them up? Don't they just have an IP address you can directly access on your LAN to set up?
"The Network Ethernet input is self-explanatory (the 8c has no Wi-Fi adapter), and is required only to control the 8c’s settings, which is done through a web-based app accessed through the D&D website."
Here again is the residual noise issue that plagues active speakers with Class D and DSP. They claim a >118dB S/N and yet hiss was 'easily' heard...
"it produces its own noise -- not much, but the review samples weren’t dead quiet. With an ear to a tweeter I could easily hear some hiss, but no hum when I moved that ear down to the midrange and woofers. This was more noise than one of my B&W 705 S2 speakers produces when connected to my very quiet McIntosh Laboratory MC302 power amp. In fact, the MC302 is so quiet that I can easily hear the noise contributed by my McIntosh C47 preamp when I turn it on (again, with an ear to a tweeter). Not so with the 8c -- whether the C47 was on or off didn’t change the amount of noise produced by the 8c’s tweeter. Clearly, the 8c’s own noise was the main contributor to the overall level of noise I heard through these speakers"
At the price of these speakers, they should be dead quiet, like the thousands of high performance amplifiers sold both now, and in the past. Nobody can exploit the full dynamic range of digital where the low level detail drops into a high residual noise floor, especially at close range listening and in smaller rooms.