Hello Herman;
Tom is a third generation Chicagoan, until last year. Would have been easy then.
Getting a good demo, or a demo where you can just be left to it for a while is always a challenge to find. I will ask if there is anything near you.
The magnitude / phase display on the Danley site is a TEF measurment display. A very slight increase in the receive delay would flatten the phase trace all through the center and result in a phase trace with a lower displayed numerical value. It looks to me like the tracking filter is set for maximum noise immunity.
The wiggles at the 200-300Hz are where the box looses pattern control in full space due to its physical size and depth. I don’t know how much of that goes away when placed against a boundry honestly.
I need a sub with them.
I have my SH50’s on four TH Mini’s per side and it is heaven. I had them on two per side and that really was adequate but four is just so solid. I run them on a pair of Crown HD5000’s, the subs have two small PEQ filters on the subs and sometimes I add a small (1.5-2dB) low Q HF boost about 16kHz, and this is music and level dependent. Other than that, no processing on the 50’s other than a high pass about 90Hz.
I really like them. They compete against some of the best speakers JBL has to offer here and hold up well. Are they the end-all of high fidelity? Of course not but I often listen to them for hours on end and they never dissapoint me.
Sorry, that’s a lot. Blah blah blah.
Barry.