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Colocating bass drivers is a bit of an inexact science, though... and while you may get overlapping waves doubling expected sound pressures, others may not... at best you'd end up with "4 subs' worth of bass"... at worst you'd end up with a non-linear response throughout the handled frequencies.

And for a bunch of people that pee and moan about speaker response graphs that don't lie flat enough to check a ruler by, intentionally sacrificing linear response for sound pressure seems odd.

But what do I know...? People buy clocks to syncopate their audio systems then play compressed audio files through them.

Bren R.

While balancing channels, I had to lower the M3 centers 6 DB on the HK to have equal sound output as the M22’s. They are positioned horizontal about a quarter inch apart with the tweeters together. I’ll also say that they have a slightly different tone than the 22’s. I initially had the woofers together, but the center channel just seamed to be two ‘wide’ for dialog. Night and day difference (and improvement) with the tweeters together.

The VP150 has the tweeters at the ends, and there are three smaller woofers vrs the two larger woofers running two M3’s.