I had a pair of Vienna acoustics Beethovens circa 2004 that stereophile measurements showed used the 'gundry dip' voicing in their speaker and it was a pleasant compromise in one regard there was less upper midrange low treble energy that actually unmasked some notes most flat speakers would obscure, for example Beck's Lost Cause from Sea changes has a background flute? mostly the sound of wind blowing it's most noticeable at the beginning and very end of the song and my revels reproduce it but don't give it the life of its own those speakers did. The drawback of the recessed midrange was always wanting to turn them up and I eventually let them go, but they lasted 10 years! I can see why speaker brands can have cult like following and I try not to suggest 1 brand being better than another just because they don't float my boat.
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