Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers!

@deep_333  To me the phrase "awful multichannel setup" is redundant. Yes, I suppose a music surround system can be initially impressive, especially to the novice listener, but does anyone really want to be subjected to musical inaccuracy in the long term?

@aewarren I suppose all those guys who work at Sony, Yamaha, Sound United, Rotel, Dolby, Trinnov, Storm, etc must be novice listeners then...Who knows? You should perhaps teach them a thing or two about musical accuracy and how to not be a novice listener.

I’m still stuck on how a post with a couple of screen shots from a surround sound AVR set up screen got so much traction???

Worse still is trying to school @mikelavigne on concert hall acoustics. It IS all about the source. For me, it is mind blowing listening to some great Jazz and Blues on good vinyl pressings realizing you are listening to a 100+ year old medium recorded with 60 year old electronics that can’t be beat by today’s digital tech.

I believe the first picture is from Clockwork Orange.

I have over 20 years in modding the weak point in most loudspeakers ,many mfg use average parts at best , I almost alway upgrade my own the same values inside 

just far bette quality , go to humble homemade hifi capacitor test , 

Jantzen foil wax paper inductors path audio resistors , or Mundorf ultra resistors .

connectors many use cheap gold over brass,WBT Copper far better conductor is preferred ,

the Xover it’s the brain 🧠 or ♥️ of your speaker just look up the above Tony Gee is the man and has helped me ,. I just felt it needed to be said . And can give you over a 10% improvement  
 

Driver quality is far and away the biggest contributor to speaker performance, followed by cabinet construction. Crossover component quality is third at most, presuming the crossover circuit is otherwise competently designed. 
 

I get why some enjoy experimenting with crossover components but they are not the weak link in the majority of speakers. Most often the drivers are what are mediocre. 
 

Driver quality is far and away the biggest contributor to speaker performance, followed by cabinet construction. Crossover component quality is third at most, presuming the crossover circuit is otherwise competently designed. 

I get why some enjoy experimenting with crossover components but they are not the weak link in the majority of speakers. Most often the drivers are what are mediocre. 

+1 @helomech 

I have experimented with a stash of crossover components from GR research. 400 to 600 dollars at most (or say under a 1000 dollars)  in crossover component upgrades gets the fidelity close to max (ime) and diminishing returns hit like a wall thereafter, as you go up in price. But, a crappy driver from a manufacturer is a crappy driver and there's no fixing that...

Manufacturers have cheaped out on crossover components so badly that the illusion of crossover component quality being the main culprit exists.