>They're designed to emphasize as many production flaws as possible. That's one way to think of it. I like to think of it as "revealing every production detai

>They're designed to emphasize as many production flaws as possible. That's one way to think of it. I like to think of it as "revealing every production detail". I want to hear the skill of both the musician and the production. I'm personally very heavily biased toward well-produced music though. The alternative is masking details, which is not what I want. I could get that with cheap speakers in a crappy room, or in the car with the engine running. Great mixing with a great performance on revealing speakers is an amazing experience. >they might tame those lows in the mix to get a more balanced result So you buy speakers with extra lows, and then when you change music to something mixed with neutral bass, it's overpowering? I'd rather have neutral, calibrated speakers and have most music be balanced and then I can EQ the badly mixed music if I want. It's a moving target, but I'd much rather have a zeroed rifle. Yes I know the analogy falls apart when the target changes distance but it's the first thing I thought of.