[Robert Peirce]

In article ,
Andrew Haley wrote:

Bob Lombard wrote:

Looks to me like you are both right - or both wrong, depending. If the
prospective buyer is a rockaholic, he wants speakers that do rock
really well, and there is nothing wrong with reviewing the speakers
with that in mind. If accurate reproduction of acoustic material (and
really other music too) is the prospective buyer's goal... this stuff is
so simple, guys, you must just like to argue, eh?

I don't think so. A well-designed loudspeaker should reproduce the
sound it's fed, whatever the source of that sound. The idea of a
"speaker that does rock really well" is fundamentally misguided. The
ideal speaker doesn't have any sound of its own.

I think he was specifically excluding ideal speakers, should such exist.

Since no speaker of which I am aware is perfect, it makes sense to
choose speakers that sound best with the kind of music (or sound) you
like.