@ricevs I am not sure if you’ve heard Wilson’s or Vivid’s properly set up in a good room(not a show in a hotel.) You never been to GTT Audio for example.
A lot of Arm chair quarterbacks always think rich people have the money to pull them out into their grand ballroom but some have a wife or family space that is shared.
You also can’t go buy measurements and the paper woofers they use from these open baffle companies are not the same quality as the ones Wilson use.
Vivid btw you hear no cabinet just like an open baffle buy the way they use tapered tubes to take out 100% of the cabinet resonances. They sound “open” without the compromises of cheaper drivers, better imaging and much better tighter and faster bass.