I love these active bookshelf speakers' stacked feature set, but they lag a little in a key area

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DALI KUPID Review: A Compact Danish Speaker That Sounds Bigger and Less Polite Than It Looks?

Everything is anchored by a 2-way crossover set at 2,100 Hz, with a bass-reflex alignment tuned to 53 Hz. On paper, DALI rates the KUPID at 63 Hz–25 kHz (±3 dB) with a maximum SPL of 103 dB, which is ...