Better? Since I don't have any objective data points and can't do a subjective listen, I'll take your word for it and as long as you're happy, that's really all that matters. Few DIYers do independent testing on their "designs" to confirm frequency response, resonances, crossover tweaks etc. Let alone, the skill to add quality veneer to anything unless you go the RTJ/JTR route and use Line-X or similar. We aren't just paying for the "item", we're paying for the testing (Klippel, anechoic chamber, Audio Precision etc.), the R&D, and the warranty. From what I know about Trinnov, they are VERY supportive of their products. Again, this product isn't really for the "home theater hobbyists" , their market is the $100K and up media integrator crowd. The people who don't "fiddle" with remotes. They come home, tell Alexa to "something", and then enjoy. The few that ARE Audiophiles, probably fiddle with their record players and cartridges vice using test tones to flush out the best delay times in their living rooms. My $.02.
The issue goes much deeper than that.
For a start the home constructor can design and build speaker systems that totally conform to nature's laws without compromise. That means bigger and heavier speakers.
Those front right and left speakers are huge and weigh 350 lb each. Their size is due to the fact that they are aperiodic transmission lines and there size is entirely determined by the length of the wavelengths they are designed to reproduce without compromise. They are dual lines with fundamental frequencies half a wavelength apart. To my knowledge these are two of the the only six dual lines built. The former were the legendary monitors in BBC studios Maida Vale. The success of that design led me to pursue this approach. My rear backs are also dual lines, and their design started in 1977. Progress was much slower back then as there was no computer design assisted programs. I was an early adopter and started using computer assisted design, back in 1984.
The center speaker is also a TL and much bigger than it looks, and is a through wall design, and in no way would be commercially viable.
The advantage of TL designs, is that they are very efficient and above all can be low Q, so they are essentially free of bass colortation like sealed and ported designs.
Rear back dual TLs.
1 meter on axis response of a main speaker.
The drop in response above 15K is due to the limitation of the measuring equipment.
On and off axis 1 meter responses. The off axis response very closely mirrors the axis response, as it should.
The bass droop is to take care of room gain.
This is the response of the system a the main listening position and the gradual HF fall off is optimal, as you never want a flat curve at the MLP.
The system requires no activation of Audyssey, Dirac or any "so called" room correction systems or software.
DIY gives you huge design flexibility.
This in wall system was designed and built to my wife's specification. The in wall sub is a TL.
The advantages of DIY are enormous.
