The older we get, the lower the average volume level, the cheaper or weirder the sound system can be.

Try to put out a club level sound pressure with any of these toy systems, and you are going to get a whole new appreciation of THD (if you even know what that is)...

Clean is clean. Flat is flat. Most speakers can achieve this. But ONLY up to a certain sound pressure level. Then componentry, cabinet design, amp design, crossover design and a host of other factors can screw up what starts out as a great sound.

Most of the 'PA wars" that go on here go on between people that can have VASTLY different volume requirements and expectations, and lead to a lot of bitter nonsense. Be aware that, even if a toy system (or, to be more kind, a 'home theater' system) sounds good to you, crank it to the point where YOU think it will blow out the windows, and it's overall tone balance and distortion characteristics will have changed dramatically. To you, maybe it's just noise, but to someone who NEEDS that pressure level, it HAS to be MUSIC....