TONE

I know what I like to hear and given a microphone and digital EQ I can get any system to have the tone I like and maximize its image projection. I can not change the image size which is a matter of the way the speakers radiate.

I dont know at all what i like to hear....It is not a "taste"....

I want to listen piano or voices the more natural possible.... I dont have sound "taste"...Save i never choose "details" over more natural  timbre.....

By the way the image size is not only a function of the way the speakers radiate but ALSO of the way the room controls help it or impede it to do so....I can modify the image size of my speakers at will.... Before my  acoustic control implementation  the image size of my speakers was small and now fill the room.... Why?  Because of the way my 2-way box speakers radiate? it is a part of the answer but sorry not the complete answer....

Study acoustic and quit selling electronical equalization....

@edcyn: For voice recording, the Shure SM58 (or 57) is not a good choice of microphone. Those mics have a presence peak deliberately engineered in, to make vocals cut through the sound of instruments coming out of a PA system.

The SM57 is very popular in recording studios for use on snare drums, but never, ever vocals. For vocals, get yourself a Telefunken U47 (tube powered). One will set you back more than the price of your car. ;-)

I made recordings of my young son’s voice with a nice small-capsule omni condenser mic plugged directly into a Revox A77 Mk.3, as well as a pair to record a band featuring acoustic piano, drumset, saxes, Jazz-tone guitar (a fat-bodied Gibson plugged into a small combo amp), electric bass, and vocalist. I’ve used those tapes for years, as demo source material

Do you enjoy your system?  If yes then the tone is good. Unless you are in the recording studio listening live you are getting the tone the producer wants you the hear. Don’t overthink it just enjoy the music

My impression is that I can only judge the "rightness" of tone when I hear it. As others have said, some recordings will never sound real on any system. Every so often everything aligns and I hear something reproduced that sounds incredibly real to my ears. I've found voices, piano and the sound of people clapping to be difficult to reproduce with a realistic sounding tone. Vinyl typically is more likely to sound realistic to me in tone than digital.

FWIW, I've been listening to some different DACs recently and the Denafrips Pontus II sounds incredibly real in tone to my ears. The Chord Qutest did not inspire that same feeling of realism for me.

Not sure about this but I think when you refer to tone, what is meant is the in-phase accurate rendition of frquency modulations, so called overtones. In my experience this is a function of the system‘s speed.
This is why single drive high efficiency speakers with flee amps on small power supplies have a reason to exist. It‘s simply faster to rev up those than 500w amps driving 4-way speaker cross-overs at 80 db efficiency. So tone is really another word for the system‘s speed if you assume that linearity rather than fine-tuned frequency is a goal. In my mind it also explains why DSP systems have a hard time in being engaging on voice or piano recordings.