thats a wrong way of building a system imo, why would you get such a thing? audio is supposed to be enjoyed and if an amp can make it even more enjoyable why make it neutral? if you like a warmer sound and you bought a pair of speaker which arent as warm as you might have liked, why can't you get a amp to balance it out?
Because the little bird that chirps so eloquently today might be a buzzard that croaks tomorrow.
Neutrality doesn't change. Subjectivity, OTOH, changes with age, weather, mood, room characteristics, etc., etc. The sound that you think balances things out today can be an annoyance of the first order next year. That's why subjectivists are always on the hunt for the "next new thing"; they got used to an off-balance sound, and got tired of it. So they look at something new (and different) and think, "Wow! This is
it!" and buy it.
Next year (or two years, or whatever) the same thing happens all over again. Down the rabbit hole they go ... $$$$.
Not only that, but if you assemble a non-neutral system
, one thing in the chain that needs to be replaced can change the whole character of your listening experience.
A neutral system provides you with exactly what is on the recording, or at least the closest facsimile thereof. It provides you with the closest thing that the artists and the recording studio wanted you to hear. If, for some reason, you don't like that, there are plug-ins that can modify the sound to your liking. What's nice about that, is that when your tastes change, the plug-ins can change with you.
Jim
