All sound is resonance- what was your point?

I never meant they should be sensational but some are, in their realism. Many people are wowed by boom/crash, but grow out of it- some don’t. Speakers must not be irritating. Once that has been accomplished, they need to be free of distortion. The debate about what makes a speaker qualify as ‘great’ will never end.

Nothing there but the musicians? You know most recordings are an assembly of recorded tracks and snippets of sounds, right? I remember you writing that you were involved in some direct to disc recordings, but how do we know how every one of those instruments sound? Most of the reverberant sound WRT instruments and vocals is there because they wanted it, so they used effects to add it. Un-mic’d bass, drum triggers, keyboards and some other instruments go direct to the mixing console.

All we can do is hope to find speakers that reproduce sound in a way that pleases us. We hear different speakers constantly and we may like many for different reasons, but we’ll still prefer something over the rest.