What is also being overlooked is how the Speaker producing the sound couples to a room and how the design for the Speaker influences the end sound as a result of upstream devices creating and managing the signal along its path.
One Transducer to another is the aboard and alight stops on the Journey.
The aboard (Cart’) is very much covered in talks about the source and the variances of the aboard are well documented on how one leans towards the voicing produced.
The alight (Speaker Driver) is not so commonly referred to in discussions being had. About the qualities being discovered when Vinyl as a source material and the supporting Trilogy of Ancillaries to enable a reply are under the microscope.
The end sound is the defining factor and the experiencing of the produced sound is the substantiation that all evaluation and assessments are made on.
Anything that happens upstream is not sound, the Groove Modulus, the Styli > Cantilever > Armature > Damper > Coils are not sound, but only precursors to the signal being generated.
The path for the signal has a real mine field to go through to the point it is at the Xover.
On exiting the Xover the Signal now converts electrical signal into a mechanical energy, with the end result being moved air that manifests as sound.
Speakers will through design and design types do very interesting things to the sound that are quite discernable.
Speakers will enable Sound to appear Voluminous or Confined, have a perception of Speed of delivery being quite responsive to laid back.
Structures for the Speakers in use will produce varying levels of detectable colouration.
The sound from the Speaker is the most important factor in a decision to be made, it is how this sound stimulates the Amygdala, that really matters.
The Amygdala is taking charge and is the rectification that is at work in advance of the chemistry produced that controls the Brains Auditory reception.
It is the Amygdala that produces the Chemicals, Neurone , and Motor Neurone responses that make one like or thoroughly dislike.
As all individuals are unique and very much bespoke in their reactions to environmental influences, especially ambient sound, it is impossible to make an evaluation that has a trustworthy accuracy based on a individuals description. It is impossible to suggest ones own findings are to be ubiquitous.
As said previously, all that can be deduced, is how the experiences had have effected the individual only.
The subject under discussion really is traipsing in ones impression left of a experience had, being an attempt to strongly suggest or a attempt to prove that certain devices are better than another.
'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and 'One mans meat is another's poison'.