Do your speakers bite??

I love the jump factor !

Bass plucking on higher pitch notes is when I get it.

I know it's the current pushed by my krell ksa amp.

So what i'm hearing for the "pro-biting" camp is you like the zing, even though it doesn't occur in real music listening?

For instance, close mic recording is bringing information about instruments we'd never hear in listening to un-amplified music.

Good point on the use of close mic recording bringing about sounds not normally heard from a distance when not mic'd and amplified.

I like the speed of quick transients and a sealed ribbon tweeter and two 4.5" mid/woofers yield superb PRAT to me, as well as digging deep due to cabinet design and port loading. 

When listening becomes painful I wonder what purpose it serves. Bite perhaps is best expressed with brassy instruments in my mind. A little might be realistic.   I don't need zing. I want speed and great tonality.

I wouldn't keep a dog that has 'bite'.

There seem to be quite a few here that like an edge that exaggerates the original performance.  They want more excitement than the musicians and their instruments were able to give.  A caricature, even, of the music.  Where does it end?

Not for me.  Certainly we need a clearly defined leading edge but anything more than what we hear in the live sound is distortion and therefore undesirable.