Back to "the room":
My very old house has dense log walls 1 foot thick. The floor and ceiling are not parallel and neither are the walls. Even with no room treatments or PEQ, a REW room sweep shows a nearly flat frequency response from highly directional floor standing speakers. Nevertheless, speaker placement and bass management still matter. A lot. So I wonder how well some of the better active speaker systems support subwoofer integration. For example do they support both high level and .1/LFE connections? High pass filtering? IMO, these issues are important, because subwoofers can play a big part in managing room effects. They also can play a big role in imaging, especially if your speakers need to be pulled away from the walls for the best soundstage (but not for optimal bass response).
My very old house has dense log walls 1 foot thick. The floor and ceiling are not parallel and neither are the walls. Even with no room treatments or PEQ, a REW room sweep shows a nearly flat frequency response from highly directional floor standing speakers. Nevertheless, speaker placement and bass management still matter. A lot. So I wonder how well some of the better active speaker systems support subwoofer integration. For example do they support both high level and .1/LFE connections? High pass filtering? IMO, these issues are important, because subwoofers can play a big part in managing room effects. They also can play a big role in imaging, especially if your speakers need to be pulled away from the walls for the best soundstage (but not for optimal bass response).