Many of you are correct, it is personal choice and your own ears. Now that being said ,I do agree with Stevecham in that Thiels are incredibly accurate and one of the best loudspeakers I ever heard was a Thiel CS 7.2 ...to my ears that is.
11-12-07: Gregm I would agree with Donald & Detlof above, and raise the following point: an "accurate" speaker-system is capable of creating a NEW musical event in the room, BASED on the original recorded event." This is just an attempt to paraphrase or review Donald's No1. Gregm (Threads | Answers | This Thread)