Meridian dsp


They look expensive but I really like that the component matching has been done and I know exactly how much it's going to cost. I've been buying and selling used speakers the last 5 years and ended up selling because I couldn't afford rolling the dice on sota components. I  bought a pair of 8000's used and I'm done, well could have been done but my obsession drove me to update them.
Anybody else chicken out on buying a pair of speakers they can afford because integrating a system can get so expensive?
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I read enough threads and have had my own disappointment because as Eric pointed out I’ve bought speakers from dealers after extensive time in a store demo only to be gut punched when I get them home and can’t reproduce the sound that attracted me to them in the first place. My solution was to go with dsp speakers and the synergy is better out of the box than anything I was ever able to cobble together myself.
I’m asking if dsp systems like the kii 3, or M, or the others are rejected out of hand or would you try them?
I supposed I could have titled my thread 'Why do they sound so good in the store?' and when I get them home they sound wrong. After around 8 pair (probably more) of full range passive speakers let me down I rolled the dice on a pair of DSP speakers and they make music in my room. I don't get it. They're still speakers in a box with no room correction applied. Did I just get lucky or are DSP's more user/room friendly? 
My speakers have been around awhile, the meridian dsp8000. They have absolute phase adjustment, 5 step axis tilt, bass and treble controls that go in .5 db steps and EBA that delays mid and tweeter response to so all fq's arrive at the same time, it can be turned off. early models ignored time alignment saying listening showed it detrimental to music reproduction however newer models have it. surprisingly with the bass turned down 2 db my system plays within a few db of flat thruout the fq range rolling off from 10khz. I have dsp in roon and have played some with previous speakers, but these work out of the box.