MattHooper
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Each human being puts different weight on different qualities, has different ideas about which imperfections they will accept, etc.
Yup. That even goes for people striving for neutrality. There are still differences and trade-offs often being made depending on someone’s taste and goals.
At the same time, a number of the speakers that measure the best (and as such are presented as the best on this forum) does not necessarily evoke that "this sounds real" and "this feels right" experience. At least not to me.
My experience as well. Overall, in terms of speakers I’d own I prefer something trending towards neutrality - if something sounds too imbalanced I’ll notice it and get turned off. But various flavourings have been very compelling.
I mentioned here my experience of being drawn into a room at an audio show by a particular life like sound that turned out to be produced by Zu loudspeakers
Also, when I was doing a mega search for a new pair of loudspeakers a few years ago, which included some well-known “ properly measuring loudspeakers,” it was actually some less than perfect measuring speakers that grab me with a type of life-like sound.
And some of it had to do with the very particular things I’m looking for, versus maybe somebody else who would’ve concentrated more on the deficiencies of the speaker.