Analytical or Musical Which way to go?

Conundria (a word I just made up, or an obscure Italian town). I think it comes down to "things you like and things you don't like". Reviews that say "this speaker is too revealing for crappy gear", although sounding reasonable, is weird to me and makes me think somebody is trying to make me spend money. Non musical speakers are the ones they use for PA announcements in airports, and a musical speaker is somebody lecturing you in a "sing song" voice. I'd like to be in on the conversation among the designers at the "non musical" speaker company..."So Bob, we have to increase the tonal glare and destroy the phase response curves in this speaker...that bassoon is just too damn life-like". Yamaha ns10s, which used to be in every pro studio in the known universe, absolutely SUCK. I hate those damn things...non musical GALORE, but somehow somebody made musical stuff happen through them...analytical? No...just BAD, and I still hate them. I also think a lot of music is non musical, but that's another story.

Many things common to small towns like lack of sophistication, racism, wife swapping, smallness, extreme smallness, lack of hipsters, a lack of "pretentious audio salons", lack of decent porn, are in my book (or pamphlet) obscene. So are Yamaha ns10s.

Also, a lot of brilliant audio engineers and musicians are "older" people who can readily work with music in spite of having old ears. So please, everybody stop with the "ageism" already. I've found that all good ("musical") sounding speakers have something in common: A designer who listens to them and does whatever it takes to make them sound good.

Mrmitch...I did not think you were knocking my age group, I just used your comments as an opportunity to rant, and for that I thank you.

Measurements for speaker design are important to see where a design is headed, but ANY speaker designer has to LISTEN to the damn things or they're idiots. If this listening results in adjustments to a final product that consumers feel isn't "musical" or "something I think sounds good", then so what? Consume elsewhere. I've had gear that was well regarded by the audio community and I thought it blew chunks, so to speak. That gear will not be used in my abode, and was abondoned, replaced by gear with which I abide for my abode. To sum up, abandon that which you abhor, and admonish absolute adherence to that which you deem abominable.

Are large corporations making my speakers now? Swine!