I know it's unintuitive, but that line of thinking is mostly wrong. Average sound preference converges towards neutral, cf https://www.audioholics.com/loudspeak

I know it's unintuitive, but that line of thinking is mostly wrong. Average sound preference converges towards neutral, cf https://www.audioholics.com/loudspeaker-design/measure-loudspeaker-performance https://www.audioholics.com/loudspeaker-design/measure-louds... But well, that's about sound itself, not all the other stuff like design that people may care about in a loudspeaker.