nick:

I fully appreciated all of your significant research, contribution & effort that you put into explaining the ideal requirements of HT setups. You certainly did not come across as unintelligent at all. Sometimes posts that are made to be humorous or tongue-in-cheek don't come across that way.

Where you lost me a little was dismissing little monster subs like the EP-400 (there aren't many 8" subs out there as capable as this unit) as being not up to the task. Having said that, I agree with you that for HT I probably would still choose 2 X EP-500s over 4 X EP-400s just for 'bang for the buck' reasons alone; however I surmise that either model would work just fine for most HT rooms as was proven in the AH article...

TAM