Well, I am a music producer and mix engineer and work with a few separate studios, I'm no audiophile, but in spare time like to listen to music, and I've chimed in only for the "revealing" and "veiled" type of comments. Lurking here for a long time, just now deciding to comment.
What some may describe revealing is dependent if the listening window is a few minutes or many days spent on that monitor. That "revealing" might be just more highs, that can become piercing in time and fatiguing. Neumanns may seem a bit boring at times because it has no smile EQ in it, just honest response. I can understand when creating you need "vibe" and "mojo", and cranking a speaker with lots of highs and lows might be beneficial for the creation part of the producing, more so when multiple artists are in the same room, but when mixing I always prefer a boring monitor with a ruler flat (as much as possible) response, so that I can make a mix playable in many other audio setups, not just mine. Of course, time spent on a monitor makes you learn it's quarks and how it's better to mix on that particular monitor, but I prefer to not guess as much.
PS - I don't own any Neumanns, but had the chance to hear them extensively, even the bigboi 420 and saying they are sounding compressed is not true.
PS2 - Comparing any Neumann with a 100$ speaker and think the 100 one is the better one just exposes that the marketing is true, sometimes. Crank the highs, boom the bass and voila, on short term listening you think that speaker is "better". used to do that mistake myself when I started...
