11-09-2020 4:50amYes I have gosta. Tapping feet & bobbing head...it's not cute but I try not to judge it. ;-)
Have you ever seen an old school audiophile tapping his (her) feet?
I believe they prefer the warm box colored sound because it makes a good sleep..
(The warmth etc. should be in the recording, not the speaker.)
The warm box colored sound? A lot of audiophiles (they won't be on this thread) will call it musical or use words like natural or analog and talk about how Harbeth or DeVore brings them closer to the music....
In reality these passive systems take them farther away from the recording studio sound...by adding ambience, warmth, reverb, harmonics, etc.
I have a nice pair of curved aluminum billet studio monitors...active & DSP. They reproduce the sound of the recording very well. They are quite analytical and unforgiving. Bass quality, imaging, and instrument separation will destroy any passive design near it's price...
But I still don't listen to them much because they are not enjoyable. I prefer my lightly damped, thin walled, first order crossover monitors much more.
(The warmth etc. should be in the recording, not the speaker.)
Should be? That's a personal preference. Some audiophiles want as close to the recording as possible. Many others want sound that is better than the original recording (to their ears).
If you look at who is using euphonic warm reverb boxes and who uses studio monitors or Kii Three type speakers...you can see which camp folks are in.