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I think the Barefoot MM12 does this as well as anything I've heard and the Apogee Stage captures a good deal of the vivid tone-colours I'm searching for (albeit with a "silvery" overlay to the sound). And, believe it or not, the much-maligned KRK monitors do a remarkably decent job in this area (though not in others). The flat honeycomb speakers Sony and Technics made years ago were likewise very good at timbre (though once again poor in other respects). And the ancient Stax SR-XIII headphone was very good at getting tone-colours right, far far better than any of the later Stax models (although I haven't heard the Omega line). But all my other speakers fail to a greater or lesser extent in conveying the tonal allure of beautiful instruments.
That's interesting. The MM2 has more in common with the JBL you mentioned earlier, while the Apogee is a different beast. All three (less so the Apogee) are quite neutral speakers.
KRK monitors also tend to be fairly neutral box monopoles.
My guess is that the ability to capture timbre realistically has very little to do with FR but has more to do with being able to faithfully reproduce ALL the very low-amplitude harmonics that make real instruments sound as they do.
Can you explain this a bit more? Specifically, what do you mean by "faithfully"?