Ohhh tay, here's my two cents (subs?) worth
I have admitted this before, and as a recovering subaholic, must confess owning not one, but TWO of those KLH subs !? It was sorta like, "Hey, 99 bucks? !? What the heck..
If nothing else, they have taught me what a good quaility sub should not sound like.. In a smallish room, turned down, they work.. Turn them up too much, they fall apart..
I do believe they are far and above the non-powered (non)subs offered with so many of the little sat/sub combos.. If you have a small listening area, and want to add bottom to your bookshelf system, for under a hundred they are hard to beat.. (Now,with $20 rebate = $80 !)
I pulled mine out of my theater room.. Put one in the garage (come on, I spend half my time out there) and one in the wifes office/workroom..
My money is going for two EP175's.. SVS will not blend with my rooms look, and two EP350's will be too tight a fit size wise.. I'm not going to sweat the little loss of low end between 350/175.. I will be gaining a more balanced sound throughout the room with two.. I'm going for seat of the pants thrills here, not a rocket science sound lab :->
I'm sure they will be perfect for any and all my music tastes as well..
Believe me, I do play hard when I comes to sound.. My amps are quite accustomed to thermal overload shut-down.. Those crazy Canadians at Axiom have provided me with speakers that can take it, and sound great doing so.. I don't expect their subs will be anything less..
One last thought, (rare for me, to be sure), is there really such a thing as too much speaker for a given room ? It's all a matter of sound pressure.. We jam our cars with more speakers than most people used to have in their homes, with amps big enough to be heard on Mars, and think nothing about it.. So why the concern for home use ? That car, with the windows rolled up is one major compact listening environment.. Your house has open doors, windows, hallways, etc.. It takes a huge amount of home equipment to come close to what's going on inside that car.. I'm not saying we need to all go deaf to appreciate good sound, but I am saying buy the best and biggest you can afford.. You can 'always' turn it down, but you can't get big sound from little boxes.. Bose proves that every day.. LOL !!
