Are warm or colored speakers disrespectful of musicians/producer/engineers?


Sure, they may be pleasing to the ear, but don't non-transparent speakers (and other gear) represent presumptive editing--across the board, regardless of the musicians' intent?
Just a provocative thought.
Let's be nice to each other if this thread takes off.
m669326

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I’ll address some concerns that people have brought up.I mentioned warm or colored to differentiate that they were two different things.Personally, I was not concerned as to whether the musicians themselves would feel disrespected. Third, if the thread seems worthless, why respond to it? Next, obviously, each of us should listen to whatever suits us the best, independent of any threads we read.
I wasn’t thinking of any particular speakers.What I was addressing was the idea of making every track you ever listen to bassier or smokier or whatever else because speakers or gear changes from the way the recording was designed to be heard. This is obviously no big deal to most of us, but I was just wondering about the respect aspect of this phenomenon.