Your Sequence speakers are at the top of my list of things I want to hear most, Donald. Do you take them to shows?I'm pretty much set on making the jump to speakers. It's mostly just a question of when now....
Something else mentioned in the AVS thread is that, contrary to what I imagined, OB speakers tend to have a smaller sweetspot, but that sweetspot is much sweeter than more traditional speakers due to the timed reflections more accurately imitating instruments that, of course, don't just radiate forward, but backward as well. This last point makes me even more curious about OB speakers as it seems box speakers killing or dramatically reducing backwave defeats the purpose of trying to sound real. Even ported designs don't do enough. Horns (of reasonable size/cost) try to use this effect, but the reflection comes from mostly the speaker's footprint, not the surrounding walls as it would with live musicians. I think this point has a lot to do with why I like my speakers I have now, but find them to be too cannon like in delivery and thus not all that realistic.
