Marty: Did you even go to school? Based on your posts and your writing prowess I tend to doubt it. Your ability to misinterpret is almost as impressive as your arrogance. I never claimed that you said "1st order crossovers were worse than any other design." Comprehension clearly isn't one of your strengths.
Perhaps you should go into your office, your gym, your living room, your sauna -- you have so many systems -- and just kick back and enjoy listening to Madonna -- or whatever it is you use to evaluate a system. Also, I clearly state that I like the Totem Arro a lot, and I am fully aware that it does not employ a first-order crossover design. Over several decades, though, I tend to gravitate to speakers that do because they tend to capture the realism a bit better. Some of the most brilliant speaker designers of our time have believed that, too.
I'll be happy to read what Linkwietz has written, but what matters most can only be judged by how a speaker sounds. I think you can agree on that. Perhaps you should enter the speaker industry. You obviously know so much about it.
