@kenjit I think I understand what you are saying. I have two systems, and it turns out that the speakers in both systems were bought without audition. I bought one pair (easily shipped monitors, used) as an experiment. I was very pleased with the speakers, and so a few years later, I bought the monitors big brother (full range floor standing, heavy, a pain to ship) betting on a house sound. That experiment was not successful. I did not like the floor standers at all. After several years of frustration trying to bring some life to the sound, I rebuilt the crossovers. That exercise completely transformed the speakers, and I could not be happier with them now. In my opinion, the modified speakers could easily compete with speakers retailing for 3-4x my investment. Since then I have done a good bit of "room tuning" via standard techniques, bass traps, diffusion/absorbsion, etc, which has further improved the ability of these speakers to perform in my listening room. So the experiment ended well, but I don't advise this approach. One simply cannot predict how the experiment will end.
I just finished rebuilding the crossovers in the monitors used in my second system. This time, the speakers were not transformed to a different animal, rather the change just improved upon the existing strengths of the speakers.
Having done all of this, I've got two sets of speakers with which I am completely satisfied, so I may be done buying speakers. Were I to buy speakers again, I'd be asking all the right questions about driver selection, crossover design and parts selection, etc. In other words I'd be asking a lot of questions I almost certainly would not get answers to. So I would be back to square one. I probably wouldn't buy speakers again that I couldn't audition, and I certainly wouldn't buy speakers that didn't audition well hoping I might be able to rectify the problem via crossover alteration.
Sorry your post has provoked so much sarcasm.
I just finished rebuilding the crossovers in the monitors used in my second system. This time, the speakers were not transformed to a different animal, rather the change just improved upon the existing strengths of the speakers.
Having done all of this, I've got two sets of speakers with which I am completely satisfied, so I may be done buying speakers. Were I to buy speakers again, I'd be asking all the right questions about driver selection, crossover design and parts selection, etc. In other words I'd be asking a lot of questions I almost certainly would not get answers to. So I would be back to square one. I probably wouldn't buy speakers again that I couldn't audition, and I certainly wouldn't buy speakers that didn't audition well hoping I might be able to rectify the problem via crossover alteration.
Sorry your post has provoked so much sarcasm.