Then, according to this statement, you can conclude that the Wilsons can "never" be correct. Since the speakers are always connected to the subs and according to you, they shouldn’t be.
@gdaddy1 No, and as with most things in audio it’s a compromise. While the designer gets to implement the crossover and there are some advantages of things like potentially better impulse response, it comes at the high price of having to design/build much heavier/more expensive cabinets and placing bass where it’s not optimal and most likely creates significant bass problems in a room. And in this particular case, which is what we’re really talking about here, where the OP already has subs it would be both silly and counterproductive to place them where they most likely will not sound best and cause room-induced bass issues. Plus, putting a speaker on a big, vibrating beast if not necessary is just a stupid idea — vibrations negatively affect sound, so adding significantly more vibrations into the speaker is just never a good idea, period. And on top of that and as someone else mentioned, it’s also likely the speakers will not be at the proper height plopped on top of a subwoofer, so for all these reasons it’s just an awful idea to put those excellent and expensive speakers on subwoofers.