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I too am a devotee of physical room treatment combined with DSP etc as the most important thing you can possibly do to improve the sound
I subscribe to Eichenbaums transform:
What really matters? The signal that reaches the speaker or the sound that reaches your ears?

6ks in my 11' x 11' x 6.5' basement room:

Thanks for the picture VK. I have a pair of my own now and they are both tucked into corners and toed in to my listening position about 9' away. Top units tilted (physically) and the bass turned to -2.5!

Have a DSP Anti mode dual core heading my way and have pretty good expectations of its bass tightening capabilities having heard one a couple of years back.

Sounds great - lucky to find a pair, rare these days aren't they? At least the 24/96 models are... How do they sound?

How do they sound?

Well its all relative isn't it, depends what you are used to and the environment in which they are being used. One thing is obvious in that they are compromised to a certain extent by the small size of my room and therefore do not sound as glorious as they did in their former keepers much larger room. That said I am very early into playing with positioning and still tweaking settings etc. I expect the Anti-mode RC to give me a much more representative picture of their potential in my room.

For now my impressions are that in comparison to the Event Opals I currently use, the 6ks are very smooth, a little less 'front row' (not that they are particularly) and definitely offer a more solid soundstage due to their greater range. In terms of sound stage and bass tightness the Opals have the edge, but of course the 6ks are not optimally set up yet and expect to squeeze a lot more from them in both those respects (which I think are connected to some extent).

Wow, that's a pretty rapid acquisition of a pair of 6ks! Hope you enjoy them.

My positioning options are extremely limited, but with MRC, the bass is, for the most part, well under control; and overall so much better than anything else I've had in the room.