Best improvement for the buck

Audiomaze,

I can't comment on the swarm which is a specific model of bass array, but conceptually bass arrays are much easier to integrate into most listening rooms versus, well almost anything else. If you have the money and space, you can use room treatment, but doing it right, it not easy, and taming deep bass requires large structures or good/lucky use of harmonic traps.  If you have a lot of flexibility in placement, very good results are possible with 2, but 4 is going to allow more flexible placement. Careful with subs near mains. If the swarm has reasonable bass management and they are low distortion so you don't get false images, then I would expect they will work well.

Those Blue Jean interconnects will throttle anything you put through them. I speak from experience.

Pesky
Do you mean throttle as in choke and restrain?

Ear cleaning.

Basically yes. I really tried to like them. However they are opaque and caused a loss of information and dynamics. I found them to be a false economy and was relieved when I moved on.

Having said that, as I do not want to hijack this thread and turn it into a yet another dead end cables war, I will post no responses to any ensuing posts on the matter, period.