You actually wrote: 'I did recently AK and I'm afraid to say they did not impress me given their horrendous cost. I would accept that they are reasonably uncoloured but to my ears, the seperate drive units just did not gel into one cohesive and believable whole in the way some of their competitors do.'

Which is a statement of opinion rather than a statement of fact, which is proven by your choice of words ('they did not impress me' and 'to my ears'). Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but it is of itself no more or less valid than anyone else's.

That is what this whole thread is about; does the measured performance of speakers matter as much/the same/less than one person's opinion of how they sound?

Unless of course you are just trolling.