I know it's going to be emotionally hard to back pedal, but I honestly think you are going to be unsatisfied until you have a pair of Compacts. Deep bass, plenty of volume, and stereo, but still MUCH lighter than anything else comparable, sonically.

The smallest Mackie sub weighs about 80 lbs. Two entire Compacts don't weigh that! You want small, light, powerful AND good sounding? Not much else out there that fills ALL those categories...

But it's going to cost you... sadly, I don't think you are going to be satisfied until you have it, though. You honestly should have got a second Compact on the 45 day return plan while you had the first, then you would have had a baseline to compare the rest with.

Thing is, you took off a nice clean pair of socks (OK, just the one sock ) to try out all these stinky pairs. When all you needed to do was find the match to the sock you were already happy with...