Tireguy, I am indeed puzzled.
On the crossover issue, you'll note that it's a VERY low 150Hz, so that the woofer is contributing very little in the lower mids. The upper satellites are ported to provide a bit of lift in the upper bass/low mids.
The coherency inherent from wide-set crosses at 150Hz and 5kHz is practically self-explanatory, and allows sitting in the extreme nearfield...even as recording monitors, so I certainly don't understand your comment. Wow.
I certainly agree that if you pull them out more than a few feet from the front (is that what you meant?) wall (mine are 10'), then you MUST flip the woofs around to provide enough LF, but I can't understand how they could be described as anemic in that geometry.
The woofers ARE ultrafast, and super "clean", if you will, so the speakers aren't plump or warm from overhang or an upper bass bump like most 3 ways.
So I find your results fascinating. My wife and I are contemplating a weekend in Montreal this year, since it's an easy ride (or train) from Boston.
Wanna come down to Boston and listen to my setup? Mine are in a quite-dead 14x24x8 living room with only moderate sidewalls reflection and faily low slap-echo, etc.
In my adjacent 14x30x10 VERY live familyroom HT system I have Spendors and a Boston PV1000 sub, all dialed in to be much warmer to overcome the harder acoustic, for comparison.
This system is great for video and background FM (as I type), but when I want a searingly-real stage and unbelievalbly real music-making I walk over and sit down in front of the Parsifals for those live FM feeds from 'GBH et al.
My wife's a GREAT cook. How 'bout yours?
RSVP.
