Quote Originally Posted by 3db
I threw a comment in there where I fail to understand why some listeners didn't like a neutral speaker. Pat D came back where he witnessed people preferring colored speakers over those that were neutral. I guess to each their own..But this got me thinking,, If a speaker is so accurate and so neutral, I could see alot of existing recordings start to irritate listeners due to poor recording quality. So suddenly, "the collection" has shrunk considerably.

a.) Has anyone expereinced this?
b.) If the answer to a is "yes", where you able to reconcile yourself to just listen to the music for music's sake rather then listen to "definiton, coloruation, accurcay"
c.) has down grading to a less accurate speaker become an option so that you could get the 'collection" back again?

Just curious
Spendor's are famous for this. They are a very forgiving speaker and their nature is to sound great with a wide variety of material/sources. Personally I think this approach is at least reasonably intelligent and quite possibly brilliant. I don't think I'd consider this approach downgrading either, just a different tactic. I have neither the time nor the inclination to listen to as many speakers as others but I'm not entirely positive I've ever heard a speaker that would be universally acclaimed to be neutral. I don't know for sure, I may have and it's quite possible that I dismissed it as boring and uninvolving.

Regards,
jc