Well, I don't need to be nice to personal bullshit.
Which is why I'm not blaming you for your choice. It's just a sad fact that the response is quite mediocre for the price, if we're to believe these measurements' accuracy.
Though I'd have considered KEF, in your situation; even if it may have meant buying blind and online. The R7 appears to be the same price as those AE520 on some Australian websites.
Can't use GLM, I have the analogue models for now.
Hmmm? There are many speakers that don't need to be corrected anechoically. LF is always messed by them room, sure, but that's not an argument for the hypothesis that you're correcting the transducer response; in fact, under the Schroeder frequency, the transuder linearity doesn't account for much, it's the room that's playing.