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I agree - "revealing" (transient capability) is not a problem

Many folks attribute shrillness or a lift in the high end as "revealing". What they are really hearing is pronunciation of certain regions of the audio spectrum. Forward midrange. Super-detailed and revealing high end. "Detail retrieval" can also be associated with distortion, such as the distortion caused by many ribbon tweeters which can be confused with that elusive "added shimmer and sparkle".

If you have a bright speaker in a live room you're going to get an "excessively revealing system". But it's really an equalisation and reflection problem and not an "information retrieval" or "transient accuracy" issue.

Getting old RCA blackgate tubes or "dumbing down" your system with less revealing components to compensate might sound like the right course of action, but it's not. Buy a speaker for your room, or first get a room that is properly balanced. Not too live, and not totally dead. If you do this, you'll find you have a lot more speakers to choose from.

A rich guy in a concrete room with hardwood floors and a wall of glass looking out at the ocean might be well off and have a $20 million dollar home, but he's got a disaster acoustically speaking. His speakers might look great in that space, but will they sound good?

He's rich so he'll probably think so...

Cheers,
Presto

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