Excellent point - many studio mixers need a speaker or DSP setting to specifically exaggerate the frequencies they're mixing - this is their job and often fatiguing because the focus may be on one band of frequencies that entire day. If you're mixing vocals all day, then it would be preferable if there was a mid-driver that contained most of the male frequencies without having to worry about crossover dips.
Speaking of loving speaker designs despite value or performance, I sometimes feel irrational for loving the big round ATC mid-dome woofer and am always looking for an excuse to get an ATC just so I can stare at the thing - it's hypnotic with its promise of midrange magic - I admit total sighted bias here! Let's assume the below speakers are the same price, size and performance, the mid-range dome is calling to me.
No, that midrange dome is pretty magical. Very low distortion, very wide response (comfortable down to about 400hz and up to about 3.5k).
That setup enables them to get the 360 degree data. What they do with that data is unknown. Are they on record to care about spinorama? And importance of off-axis sound?
here, a 8341 is $3,125 and a Core 47 is $2,999.... even easier choice
It's possible that there is just some "genius" engineer/designer that wants to do things his way regardless of what the data says. I wouldn't be surprised knowing the importance that is often given to the "personalities" in this industry. Which is a shame, because Dynaudio is certainly capable of producing a speaker as good or even better than their direct competitors.
Axed it last year after reading early reviews that they were “dry” and without something like GLM there’s no easy way to fix it without adding some 3rd party EQ software. In the middle of a lockdown made it impossible to listen at a store, and pro gear doesn’t have generous return policies if you don’t like it. So all we have are subjective reviews, third party measurements and faith in Dynaudio’s ear. Given these constraints I narrowed it down to Genelec or Neumann before this review. Now, I’m glad I did.
That makes your point as I agreed, but the directivity side of stuffs is really so sorry for them, yea room treatment mitigate a lot of those bad room reflections, but that doesn’t justify not improving the design, it’s like if Porsche said hey you guys buy our expensive 911 on tracks will mod the brakes and rims anyway, so we came with some beetle brakes and wheels for stock
(I like your directivity/driving in a straight line analogy) They don't have good off-axis properties, but they do have 1.15kW of amplification on board and they cost $2400 or something. I doubt there's many speakers this size out there that have that kind of headroom, at this price point, while maintaining some degree of "studio" quality to the sound, albeit with sub-optimal directivity. 
