As for the CS6, it's hard to tell from JA review where the "reticence" comes from. When I listen to my speakers for example, I can tell whether the "reticence" of a particular frequency comes from the lack of transparency or a dip in frequency. One could mistake a dip in frequency for "lack of transparency", and likewise, one could mistake a "lack of transparency" in the dip in frequency. You could have NO dip in frequency response but still you could still sense some type of "reticence".
Both aspects can be easily confused without having enough listening experience. As I have mentioned in my past posts, the CS2.4 does not have a dip in treble response, but as we have discussed in various posts here, due to less than ideal capacitor on the coax driver, there is some "lack in transparency" in the CS2.4 treble response but that has nothing to do with frequency response as a matter of fact I think the CS2.4 treble is fairly extended. And of course some have reported better details after upgrading the capacitors.
I wish there is a "transparency" measurement but as far as I can tell, there is no such thing. So what left is up to one's own intuition. And trying to argue about different people intuition could be a futile exercise!
Both aspects can be easily confused without having enough listening experience. As I have mentioned in my past posts, the CS2.4 does not have a dip in treble response, but as we have discussed in various posts here, due to less than ideal capacitor on the coax driver, there is some "lack in transparency" in the CS2.4 treble response but that has nothing to do with frequency response as a matter of fact I think the CS2.4 treble is fairly extended. And of course some have reported better details after upgrading the capacitors.
I wish there is a "transparency" measurement but as far as I can tell, there is no such thing. So what left is up to one's own intuition. And trying to argue about different people intuition could be a futile exercise!