Speak for yourself, I most certainly do pick out individual types of instruments @every concert of any musical genre I go to, especially harp---close your eyes, you can still determine what direction in a concert hall the harp is placed at usually...ever been to opera performance, if you can't tell where the voices are coming from, probably wasted your money going to the performance or you have cheap seats way up in the clouds...room interaction contention is specious at best, nonsense at worst, is that
gentle enough ;p . Then again, in another post you mentioned that the design should be able to play all music genre, but then go on to mention CL2 won't be loud enough for a metal head? Based on what amplifier/amplification tests you have done?
Best thing I'm getting out of this thread, and it seems to apply more broadly...so many individual models, have equal number of users that want differing things from the same model, so either knock it for perceived flaws, or praise for same 'flaws', all saying 'synergy' is the key, the whole package from source to ears, all those components make little differences that add up to a complete whole of the parts.
Another nonsensical statement, if single driver speakers were the be-all-end-all, why are multi-driver, multi-crossover speakers the dominant market?
good speaker design, employs crossovers that do a good job, which costs time/money vs diminishing returns, at some point a compromise is made. This is an old debate that will never be 'won'.
I think there are plenty of audio experts that will disagree with such blanket statements, plenty will say that a hybrid driver setup provides the best of both worlds, using BA that you do not like.
Planar bass is 'acoustically correct' ...nonsensical, it can be 'correct' or 'incorrect' depending on how successful the design implementation.
Uh, BMW Motorsports or Mercedes AMG? I vastly prefer the subtle floral qualities of fresh juicy/fruity Tahitian vanilla beans in my freshly made French pastry cream, or vanilla custard ice cream base. If you value your life, you'd not offer me anchovies in ice cream, pizza yes!
LOL, I have a huge loss of hearing @8k, so the 'bass' heavy profile, the only one that does not drop 6db+ @8k according to that graph; is the best for my ears, even though I'm not a basshead, prefer treble 1st, bass 2nd, mids 3rd cause they are needed for singing voices.
Planar bass in Auduze LCD-2 is not what I find interesting, when compared to planar bass from Hifiman HE-1000.
Soundspace on HE-1000 is not 'better' but different/more to my liking in the HE-1000 compared to the 'signature' natural/theoretical flat LCD-2?
Though I'd prefer a nice crossover designed DNA mix of HE-1000 & Sennheiser's HD800 wide/airy soundspace, or maybe throw in superior treble of a Stax,
^3 'synthetic crossover' design of those 3 cans, put it into a nice cheap custom 3D printed true wireless earphone with 12hrs runtime, I'm down with that
....and it must cost <$300...california dreamin.