I'm familiar with them, and yes, they were even lamer than CC. Jack, their salesman used to be able to talk them into stuff they should have never brought in, but they always liked to think of themselves as a bit more high end than they actually were. In the end, it got blown out and someone got a deal. That happened fairly often.
I really do like this series of speakers. If 70s vintage amplification was available in the 90s, these speakers would still be in production in one form or another. Unfortunately, as amplification got weaker and weaker, speakers designers had to dummy down the loads to work with the lack of available amplification. From a power demand point of view, they were largely obsolete over a decade before they were ever released. However, they are a testament to the engineers they had around at the time. They made most of the right choices for the speakers, just not for the market they had to compete in.
Sony did the same thing to itself years ago when they did the ES speaker line. Pretty nice speakers, but Sony didn't sell anything in the US market that could effectively drive them. Oops.