Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more?


In our thirty years of professional audio system design and setup, we keep on running into two distinctly different types of sound and listeners.

Type One: Detail, clarity, soundstage, the high resolution/accuracy camp. People who fall into this camp are trying to reproduce the absolute sound and use live music as their guide.

Type Two: Musicality camp, who favors tone and listenability over the high resolution camp. Dynamics, spl capabilty, soundstaging are less important. The ability for a system to sound real is less important than the overall sound reproduced "sounds good."

Are there more then this as two distincly different camps?

We favor the real is good and not real is not good philosophy.

Some people who talk about Musicaility complain when a sytem sounds bright with bright music.

In our viewpoint if for example you go to a Wedding with a Live band full of brass instruments like horns, trumpts etc it hurts your ears, shouldn’t you want your system to sound like a mirror of what is really there? Isn’t the idea to bring you back to the recording itself?

Please discuss, you can cite examples of products or systems but keep to the topic of sound and nothing else.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
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@Prof I think your point combined with "do you think we are investing thousands and thousands of dollars in matching equipment to make the Personas especially the 9H's sound great if it wasn't necessary?" demonstrates to all reasonable people that the audio doctor is only interested in extracting money from the gullible.  He's here to show us the one true way and that way just happens to require all our money.  How convenient.  
jon5912,

I’m sure audiotroy believes in the products he sells.

Its one thing to be a gullible audiophile, but once one starts extolling the virtues of a product in order to sell them, then high end audio salesmen become part of the rip-off business,  IMO.
  
(Again, not knowingly fleecing people necessarily, but not doing some due skeptical diligence on your product before selling items for exorbitant prices).
If you strip away the natural harmonics of music, you get a lean and very detailed sound
I offer you a third option - harmonic richness and tons of detail, and that's my Benchmark DAC3 + AHB2.

Seanheis,

Your statements are simmpy not true, a speaker system can't add or subtract information the information is there you are not able to hear it due to masking effects of the speaker due to either limitations of the drivers, crossover slopes, crossover implementation of both. 

If a driver starts to roll off at 15khz you will not hear a 20khz tone or it will be reduced in amplitutude so it will be burried. You could call that speaker system musical because it has reduced energy in the high frequencies which will make you more aware of the upper midrange and lower treble frequencies. 

Most well designed loudspeakers strive for a relatively flat frequency response no engineer strips out "natural harmonicss," the fact that "natural harmonics would be an integral part of the signal it would be impossible to strip anything out. 

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
   Such a narrow minded line of thought so if your into musicality your flawed if into type 1 your gold. Poster seems to not consider that those who may enjoy musicality might also like massive dynamics accuracy detail clarity or high SPL they also never use live music as a reference in his narrow view its one way or the highway.  Post uses faulty logic and is  Splitting the inability to see the dichotomy of both positive and negative aspects of our thoughts, usually associated with how we think about people. Everything is either all good or all bad – there is no middle ...