Yes, all speakers need some kind of positioning to get the best of the sound to be flowed into our ears. I'm thinking rationally based on the idea, how the speaker control the sound, which is could be what most high-end speakers is being designed, but as you know auditions, magazine reviews, marketing hype, all comes with a layer of thick snake oil or being injected with tons of snake oil, I'm sad to say that though, if I'm going to audition the speakers, how am I ensure I'm listen to the real sample of products, that's the fishy thing, also the room setup with acoustic management is another trap. More practically, consider you have thousands of song, even it takes 20 to 30 tracks, the process can be tiring and not really wise to make a decision. After all I'm still back to the same question, with limited budget how can get a reference bookshelf that is powerful and dynamic enough with balanced and accurate tone, if assume I buy a highly recommended brand of speakers, there is also no guanrantee I can get what I want, also there is no return policy in bolehland. The Grand Teton Gen2 got 40 days return policy, which in case I just need to pay the shipping cost though. Talking about garbage in garbage out, I'm absolutely fine with it, as I always go for transparent setup. USA really a heaven for HiFi and music enthusiast, there are tons of affordable speakers with good return policy. In BOLEHLAND, with same price, I'm just buying a traditional designed speakers, no state of the art technology, so I would rather buy a really "high end" bookshelf speakers. If not the Grand Teton Gen2, what else would you all recommend? KEF R300? Joseph Audio Pulsar is neverland but dreamland to me

Yeah, quite tempting to get Ascend Acoustic Sierra-1, it looks gorgeous, the Grand Teton Gen2 looks like a joke or mad scientist experiment...

The weird and freaky thing is the Grand Teton Gen2 is being put together with those big brand expensive speakers, really looks like a joke, haha...

@GI Jie , i have one dedicated phase going into the audio room....from there i have a dedicated DB power for the room

from the DB, each equipment has a dedicated power line

1 for my amp running on 4mm cables
1 for my av amp running on 4mm cables
1 for cdp running on 2.5mm
1 for bluray running on 2.5mm
1 for projector
1 for sub
and another spare for future second sub

my screen, aircond and lights are wired from the main db which is separated from my audio db.....

should be enuf juice lar