I have nothing against folks that enjoy a tilted up high frequency response, but I do wish they would stop referring to it as 'neutral' sounding
I couldn't agree with you more. Evertime someone has reccomended a "nuetral" speaker to me, all I hear is a tilted up design, actually nothing but nuetral. Please don't take this personal if you own these but Usher Dancer is the most guilty of this "trick". Excellent cabinet, good components sounds almost brittle.
If by nuetral you mean uncolored I think we want that as a starting point but the poorer the recording the more we try to make it sound "better".