look at the video again. the bypass goes in the middle of the intake...no? where is the middle of the intake on cp=e or aem? sure you could but the intakes....if that's what you want to do i guess?
i don't know who's car you were driving in where the short ram intake sounded "rice", cause it has been the best sounding intake on my car...and i've had 5 intakes on my car! mileage....ehh, i never saw anything effect mileage enough to make me think about it....but the short setup didn't hurt it enough to where i noticed "shit, where's my mileage?".
i'm not saying get the SRS, but unless you had it on your 6i, keep those comments to yourself. it's all about preference and driving style, i've run airbox mod, my own custom cai, aem srs, aem cai, injen cai (ran as short setup as well) and cp-e's intake.....they all work fine, none of them work poorly at all. certains ones just aren't $200+ better than the others in my opinion.