Watkins Stereo Generation FOUR Loudspeakers Compelling BARGAIN!!

Nope.

From TAS : The front baffle is angled backwards to time-align the drivers by placing the acoustic center of the tweeter behind that of the woofer. This also helps to match the sensitivity of the woofer (88dB) with that of the tweeter (91dB) without the use of a resistive pad. The tweeter is crossed over at 3kHz using a single capacitor, and that’s it; there are no other passive components in the signal path.

The reviewer hasn't a clue what he's talking about. The baffle slope isn't enough to time align the drivers. If there is only a single cap, that means the woofer is run full range and dependent on its rolloff - which is likely ragged and resonant somewhere in that region.

BTW, the post by IEALES is disrespectful and inaccurate.

Sorry Bill, but the post is accurate.

All drivers have a high frequency resonance. For Peerless 6.5" woofers it can clearly be seen here https://www.tymphany.com/transducers/sds-160f25cp01-08/ and here https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/peerless-woofers-6-7/peerless-830657-6.5-sds-woofer/ at about +10db. Response is quite ragged above resonance and increasingly bad off axis. NOTE: This is a driver property governed by physics and not a reflection on the Watkins Gen 4.

It appears the baffle is sloped about 13mm which is enough to offset the 14mm lead from the first order 3k, but no where near enough to account for the 35mm+ acoustic center discrepancy between the woof and tweet drivers. NOTE: This is not a defect of the Watkins Gen 4, but an indication of the reviewer's lack of understanding of loudspeaker fundamentals.

By all accounts the Gen 4 is a pleasing loudspeaker. Were they not 2800 miles away, I'd go have a listen.

I don't review for any magazine.
I've been involved with HiFi since the late 50's, worked as a [Grammy Nominated] recording engineer, built studios, designed electronics for professional film and recording studios.

Modifying a woofer will move, but not remove, a resonance. A 10db resonance is likely to be fairly audible.