Klipsch Cinema 400 Soundbar + Subwoofer

This is, without a doubt, the worst purchase I've ever made, and the biggest disappointment in a brand in my life. Firstly -- I'm not a full blown audiophile, but I dabble. I have a couple Klipsch RP260's in the basement with a Klipsch Center, and a respectable driver/amp setup, as well as a Sunfire 12" sub. Nothing jaw dropping, but enough to get a taste of "good audio". The rest of the house is filled with soundbars, trick wiring setups, and minimalist setups in kids rooms, etc. The "cheapy" Klipsch 2.1 $99 computer speakers, namely. This proves relevant shortly. We originally purchased a JBL 3.1 soundbar + sub from NFM in ~2018. That thing will positively rip the skin off your face, and it was $299 at the time. We later bought a JBL 2.1 that was plagued with bluetooth subwoofer pairing goblins -- but was also a *very* respectable setup, coming in @ $209. In an effort to replace the JBL 2.1 after the BT saga -- I purchased this Klipsch Cinema 400 from Amazon, supposedly on sale, for $350. I took a leap of faith on the brand, as I was both hugely pleased with the RP260 towers, and had very low expectations for the computer 2.1 setup that were easily surpassed by a more than adequate result for $99. I figured, "...it's Klipsch and they want $350 for it... it CANNOT be a bad purchase". Wrong. Dead wrong. First -- the build itself. The Klipsch emblem itself is crooked, and clearly cheaply made. The fabric used on the face of the speaker looks like used panty hose. The cabinets of both the bar and the subwoofer are the same quality you find with other Klipsch products, which makes the audio to be described later even that much more disappointing. The construct itself isn't awful, and mirrors other similar brands in woofer and electronics mounting, but for my previously beloved brand, and for $350, I was REALLY hoping to see them shine here as I've always been impressed by Klipsch's follow through. Not the case here. Audio: Terrible. I mean... awful. Muddy isn't the word. Bass is only suitable when a notch below it's maximum for music, and only tolerable on a few notches from it's minimum in movies. Highs are hugely frustrating. Some streaming audio in "LIVE" settings reach for quality -- but it's very spotty, and even then disappointingly bright and overexaggerated. Most others however are somehow lost in what I can only assume is some sort of onboard hardware driven EQ that is only editable in 3 ways (on the remote) using prebuilt default settings. Surround on or off. Dialogue mode on or off. But as bad as the highs get it -- the MIDS are MISSING ALTOGETHER. Seriously. It's like being in a movie theater with an entire channel muted. There is no way to adequately describe this in text, you'd just have to (not) hear it for yourself. Finally, what I'm calling outright FLAWS. +The absence of a digital numerical display on the face for volume and settings/options. +The pitiful and virtually useless remote, and it's available "options" +Pops LOUDLY when turned on after TV is turned on, when audio first appears +As noted in several other reviews, has a very strange issue where the system turns off completely when idle for VERY short periods of time and/or drops out the low end and subwoofer intermittently as though it's attempting to go to sleep, but then kicks back on without any interaction OVERALL: HUGELY disappointed in the brand, and the delivery. This, amazingly, could steer me away from them altogether for future audio purchases. It's a statement that I hated this thing so badly that I took the time to painstakingly uninstall, fish out wiring, and repack this all back in it's awkward box so that I can complete the return and do it all over again...