What are your opinions of DSP's for speakers

Have yet to hear DSP work well for 2ch. It usually make the soundstage smaller, and makes everything sound compressed. I'm sure it's smoother, cleaner, optimized, but it takes all the emotion out of it, feeling sterile. 

Yes, DSP for my 9.4.2, (13 speakers @ 150wpc) absolutely! It's almost impossible to time align all them speakers to a listening spot. Soundstage isn't affected with 4 speakers providing it. But music (unless encoded for atmos) sounds lifeless, and dull, but movies are incredible. 

@vthokie83 There were many more rooms this year with Active/DSP based systems at AXPONA. A popular YouTube reviewer also noticed this. It seems this is going to be the future for many companies. I heard the Dutch and Dutch 8C's at AXPONA a couple years ago and was very impressed with the bass they put out. After doing some research though they down sampled everything coming in to them. I didn't really like that. They also require a physical connection between both speakers. I guess there are compromises with any speaker brand. Thanks for your comments.

Some folks like to live in the past which is fine for them but DSP is the ultimate tweak for 21st century “audiophiles”.   We all have rooms and acoustics to deal with. Speaker designers are always constrained by the laws of physics.  DSP enables that not possible otherwise.   DSP can be used or abused.  Do it right and you are golden.  Do it wrong and….

There is a learning curve.  One must be up it to some extent to be effective. Mastering the use of tools is always the key to a job well done. 

@mswale come have a listen in my house and maybe I can change that.  You never know.  

@mapman said perfectly