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I think they were ported around back (EDIT: I was wrong, they were sealed), and had a 10" down-firing woofer. The front was covered in an acoustic absorber foam. Pretty nifty! 🤗

From the front, at least, these remind me of another old favorite of mine, the Design Acoustics PS-10! Loved that speaker, and sold truck loads!

All enormous and heavy speakers should come with wheels by default. Just sayin'.

Yes, speaker companies developed new surround materials in the 90s that are infinitely more durable than those from the prior decades.

On the originals, yes, very much a problem. But that's relatively easy to repair. There's a guy in Minneapolis who specializes in that, but I'm sorry I can't remember his name.

Yeah, JBL has always been a bit...optimistic...shall we say?

Not quite the same thing, but one of my favorite speakers in my early retail days was the JBL L100T. Sold truck loads of those.

This is pretty much what I and my colleague were working on for next-gen Integra at PAC (plus multichannel surround, Dirac and Dante capabilities). PAC sure missed out! This new NAD series and the new direction of Sonos and miniDSP is where the CI industry is headed imho, not traditional big-box...

Certainly seems to have covered all the bases. I don't think anyone I knew at Sonos as a partner vendor is still there, so this particular product intrigues me because it seems very different from anything they've done in the past, and so much more specific to a new lane for Sonos to travel in...

That's a very strong endorsement!

I like Dali, don't get me wrong, but these are kind of generic-looking cabinets.

Definitely not your dad's Sonos Amp.

Understood.

Out of curiosity, how much mudiness in your bass were you experiencing prior to ART? Scale of 1-10, 10 being embarrassing. 😁

All good points to ponder! I'd be astonished if the miniDSP can't apply lip sync per input, tho'. Even my 8.4/805/70 can do that.