Terrific thread, lots of interaction! Points out that the sonic differences one person considers small or insignificant might be HUGE for someone else. Everyone has different listening priorities and we all hear differently. A great discussion like this one brings this all out and people learn. It is not as simple as “speaker A is better than speaker B . . . it depends on perspective . . . it is all relative to the observer as Einstein so elegantly pointed out. For example, I personally cannot stand to listen to a speaker that is at all ‘hot” on the top. For me, any added emphasis, anywhere in the frequency range tends to stick out and ruin my enjoyment. I’d rather listen to a crappy car audio system that misses a lot of info, than an audiophile system that gets it 90% right but is too hot in the highs or has too much midbass.
Everyone who has seriously listened to the XLs has mentioned the neutrality. High end recording studio engineers who have heard the XLs love them. We’re very proud of this, and thankful that others hear it as well.
