The point was that technology, modern materials, etc., has not improved on something that is hundreds of years old. If you think that there is some simple "ideal" of a perfectly neutral speaker and that there is some technical means of measuring and approaching such ideal that takes out of the picture the maker making subjective decisions, then you have not been around people that actually make speakers.
I am aware of the objective approaches, such as the work of Floyd Toole and the National Research Council of Canada. But, there are plenty of listeners who simply don't like the resulting sound (like me, for instance) and that is probably why there is such a broad array of choices that people make in buying speakers. Likewise, there is a broad array of different speakers being offered by designers because they happen to like different sounds and voice their designs accordingly. It is naïve to think that there is a one-size-fits-all measure of what is closest to the "ideal speaker" that has no voice of its own.
Here is our challenge, at various price points of your choosing, tell us what comes closest to the no voice of its own. I will really go out on the ledge here, I bet there will be a whole lot of folks that will disagree with those choices.
