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So you have an excellant recording that we know of but sounds like dirt on a system...

An accurate system will tell you if the recording or mix was terrible...
Take for example some old Neil Young..

Better to listen to on an inferior system..

Neil could have done a much better job at presenting his music.

I'm ok with a colored sound. Prefer musicality and realism over "accuracy" or "neutrality"

In and of themselves these are totally arbitrary terms. The more you dig into it the more certain you will know this. That is why I can just about bet money you will never find these terms in any of my many detailed comments on the way something sounds. These terms simply have no meaning, and I am not big on writing nonsense.

Well, that's not quite exactly right now, is it? The no meaning part, I mean. (I write nonsense all the time! Sometimes even on purpose!) The meaning I get from it is the writer is saying, "There are people who like a sound they call accurate or neutral, and I prefer something different."

So there you go.

@millerVery well said!

Don’t know how to do that Elizabeth. But a 30 second google search turned up a few interesting JGH articles. I remember reading it all long ago ...