Taste is heavilly influenced by diverse biases . hence why some audiophiles are stuck in a constant upgrade loop the placebo wears off then the next fix .
AN and similar snakeoil vendors rely on that mechanism/fetishism it has very little to do with audio quality it's a racket and a cult.
Been there done that (not with AN products but other kinds of BS thank good my finances where never that good when i was younger ...)
A good question to ask AN is when they have they plan to have tube based room correction ready
that would not fit into thier cargo cult engineering . AN is beyond "Taste" you been had if you own thier products
Panel speakers can be very good under the rigth circumstances i friend also has some martin logans , Ray had them since 1998 and seemed to been with them since and using miniDSP to iron out the kinks . Even if they don't fit some reasearch does not mean that they are bad . Audio is severly under reasearched IMHO ? and audio companys keep thier findings to themself .
Look at what you actually can patent in audio , the different THX amps headphones or power amp topology ? who just is a specific applikation of known principles nothing new , but audio is such a backwater that we have to take any scrap resembling engineering and/or science as a goodsend
We simply have to be gratefull and that some people try to aply scientific principles and real engineering , the rest sees audio as a solved problem and moved on to other interesting stuff .
And the "custommers/cult-members" must make anyone manufacturing the stuff desilusionized you have to add all the correct trappings to able to sell , Kudos to Dynaudio for omitting biwire terminals on many of thier speakers for example ?